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Synagogue art --- Synagogue architecture --- Archaeology and religion
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Rock paintings --- Archaeology and religion. --- Prehistoric peoples - Religion.
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Archeology --- Christian art and symbolism --- Archaeology and religion --- Religions --- Civilization --- Occultism --- History
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Archaeology and religion --- Material culture --- Antiquities --- Religious aspects --- Religious studies --- History as a science --- Archeology
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"Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. The term 'sacrifice' belies what is a complex and varied transhistorical and transcultural phenomenon. Bringing together scholars from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy, literature, and theology, Diversity of Sacrifice explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. Incorporating theory, material culture, and textual evidence, the volume seeks to consider new and divergent data related to contexts of sacrifice that can help broaden our field of vision while raising new questions. The essays contributed here move beyond reductive and simple explanations to explore complex areas of social interaction. Sacrifice plays a key role in the overlapping sacred and secular spheres for a number of societies in the past and present. How religious beliefs and practices can be integral parts of life on individual and community levels is of fundamental importance to understanding the past and present. In addition to aiding scholarly research, Diversity of Sacrifice enables students to explore this rich theme across Europe and the Mediterranean with clear discussions of theory and data"--From publisher's website.
Sacrifice --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology and religion --- Material culture --- Social interaction --- History
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The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and complex cultural norms are expressed, demonstrating group affiliation. However, popular devotion and belief in a rural environment can include practices that are out with those of the official religion. Some of these practices discussed in this book can be investigated through archaeology. Important religious sites like churches, monasteries, mosques and synagogues as well as caves, holy wells and hermitages are discussed. Furthermore burials of children, revenants and the condemned are analysed, as they often deviate from normal practice and shed light on particular communities and their beliefs. Rituals concerning the protection of buildings and persons which focus on objects attributed with religious qualities are another area explored. Through archaeological research it is possible to gain an understanding of popular religion of medieval and early modern times and also to draw conclusions about religious ideas that are not written in documents. By bringing together these topics this book is of particular interest to scholars working in the field of archaeology, history and cultural anthropology. The addressed subjects were the theme of an international conference of the RURALIA association held in Clervaux, Luxemburg, in September 2015. Ruralia promotes the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life. Current research questions in rural archaeology are discussed in an European wide context. The aim is to strengthen the exchange of knowledge in, and the development of, archaeologically comparable studies, and to make archaeological results available to other disciplines.
Archaeology and religion --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Europe --- Religious life and customs --- History --- Antiquities
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Handicraft --- Hausa (African people) --- Antiquities. --- Bauchi State (Nigeria) --- Kanem-Bornu Empire --- Kirfi (Nigeria). --- History. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Pottery, Hausa --- Material culture --- Archaeology and religion --- Archaeology and history --- Nigeria --- Antiquities
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Vikings --- Church history --- Archaeology and religion --- Eglise --- Archéologie et religion --- Religion --- Histoire --- Norway --- Norvège --- Antiquities --- Histoire religieuse --- Antiquités --- Archéologie et religion --- Norvège --- Antiquités --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Vikings - Religion --- Archaeology and religion - Norway --- Christianisme --- Norway - Church history --- Norway - Antiquities
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