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The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard-an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies-considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community.

Ayahuasca ceremony --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.

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Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of "passing the bowl," or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands and mouth, or chōzu?Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here, scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique cultural value of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its structure, spaces, and style, and delves into the history of everything from the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective on Japan's culture of tea.

Japanese tea ceremony --- Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) --- Cha-no-yu houses --- Tea houses (Japanese tea ceremony) --- Teahouses (Japanese tea ceremony) --- Garden structures --- History.

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Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume's three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors' respective fields.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- calculations. --- ceremony. --- handwritten artefacts. --- performance.

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"By examining chanoyu - the custom of consuming matcha tea - in the Meiji period, Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan investigates the interactions between intellectual and cultural legacies of the Tokugawa period and the incoming influences of Western ideas, material cultures and institutions. It explores the construction of Japan's modern cultural identity, highlighting the development of new social classes, and the transformation of cultural practices and production-consumption networks of the modern era. Taka Oshikri uses a wealth of Japanese source material - including diaries, newspaper, journal articles, maps, exhibition catalogues and official records - to explore the intricate relationships between the practice and practitioners of different social groups such as the old aristocracy, the emerging industrial elite, the local elite and government officials. She argues that the fabrication of a cultural identity during modernisation was influenced by various interest groups, such as the private commercial sector and foreign ambassadors. Although much is written on the practice of chanoyu in the pre-Tokugawa period and present-day Japan, there are few historical studies focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan thus makes a significant contribution to its field, and will be of great value to students and scholars of modern Japanese social and cultural history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Japanese tea ceremony --- Social classes --- Group identity --- History --- Japan

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La Restauration marque la paradoxale résurrection du rituel de l’entrée royale cérémonie spectaculaire qui met en scène le pouvoir représenté par le souverain, et témoigne de sa mainmise symbolique sur le territoire dont sa propre personne incarne l’unité politique. Jusqu’aux débuts de la Troisième République, cette traditionnelle cérémonie du pouvoir connaît maints réinvestissements symptomatiques. Parallèlement, en ce siècle des révolutions, l’historiographie, la littérature, l’iconographie manifestent un intérêt tout particulier pour l’entrée royale ; en effet, ce dispositif complexe offre un modèle particulièrement efficace lorsqu’on s’interroge sur les modes de production de la légitimité politique. L’entrée royale, à la fois événement et récit, acte et paroles, construit une fiction du pouvoir : elle constitue un excellent point d’optique pour analyser le fonctionnement symbolique des fêtes de souveraineté, les logiques rhétoriques et stratégiques qui la fondent, enfin ses conditions d’efficacité et ses possibilités d’adaptation - toutes questions essentielles en un siècle qui travaille à une refondation symbolique prenant acte des effets de la Révolution.

Literature (General) --- littérature --- pouvoir --- entrée royale --- politique --- symbolisme --- history --- politics --- nineteenth century --- symbolism --- ceremony