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Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world : toward a new Jewish archaeology
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ISBN: 0521844916 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press

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Ayodhya : the finale : science verses secularism in the excavations debate
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ISBN: 8185990778 9788185990774 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Delhi: Voice of India,

A cosmos in stone : interpreting religion and society through rock art
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ISBN: 0759101957 Year: 2002 Publisher: Walnut Creek ; Lanham ; Oxford AltaMira Press

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Atlantis
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ISSN: 07516223 Publisher: Vincennes:

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Religion and material culture : studying religion and religious elements on the basis of objects, architecture, and space : proceedings of an international conference held at the centre for Bible and Cultural Memory (BiCuM), University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, May 6-8, 2011
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ISBN: 9782503569000 2503569005 Year: 2017 Volume: 3 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Diversity of sacrifice : form and function of sacrificial practices in the ancient world and beyond
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ISBN: 1438459963 9781438459967 9781438459950 1438459955 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press,

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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.


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Religion, cults & rituals in the medieval rural environment
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ISBN: 9789088904875 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden Sidestone Press

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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.

Shamanism and the ancient mind : a cognitive approach to archaeology
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ISBN: 0759101558 Year: 2002 Publisher: Walnut Creek AltaMira Press


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Imprints of the archaeology of northern Nigeria : landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region
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ISBN: 9781407358925 1407358928 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford BAR Publishing


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The Viking age as a period of religious transformation : the Christianization of Norway from AD 560-1150/1200
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ISBN: 9782503534800 2503534805 Year: 2011 Volume: 2 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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