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"Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural-or individual-beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails"--

Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual --- Cognition and culture. --- Psychological aspects.

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"Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist die Rekonstruktion und religionsgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung spätantiker Konzeptionen kultischer Reinheit und ihrer weitreichenden Konsequenzen für Amtsverständnis und Spiritualität im antiken Christentum, die ihre Auswirkungen teilweise bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart besitzen, wie z.B. in Form des Zölibats. In einem ersten Schritt sollen die au�erchristlichen Wurzeln dieses Phänomens in den Blick genommen werden. Analysiert werden der Einfluss der religiösen Umwelt des frühen Christentums, namentlich der paganen Kulte des griechisch-römischen Kulturkreises und des Judentums. Hiervon ausgehend wird die Frage nach einer spezifisch christlichen Rezeption bzw. Adaptation derartiger Reinheitssysteme gestellt. Ziel dieser Abhandlung ist es darüber hinaus auch, die konkreten Vorstellungswelten, die hinter Konzeptionen ritueller Befleckung stehen, herauszuarbeiten, um so zu einer umfassenderen Sichtweise der 'pollutio' in Antike und Christentum zu gelangen." --

Pureté rituelle --- Christianity and culture --- Cults --- Cults. --- Purity, Ritual --- Purity, Ritual. --- Early church. --- History --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Judaism. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire).

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Water and civilization --- Water-supply, Agricultural --- Ritual --- Material culture --- Votive offerings --- Peru --- Antiquities

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"In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals (kanjō) of Buddhist origin. This is the first book to address in a comprehensive way the multiple forms and aspects of these rituals also in relation to other Asian contexts.The multidisciplinary chapters in the book address the origins of these rituals in ancient Persia and India and their developments in China and Tibet, before discussing in depth their transformations in medieval Japan. In particular, kanjō rituals are examined from various perspectives: imperial ceremonies, Buddhist monastic rituals, vernacular religious forms (Shugendō mountain cults, Shinto lineages), rituals of bodily transformation involving sexual practice, and the performing arts: a history of these developments, descriptions of actual rituals, and reference to religious and intellectual arguments based on under-examined primary sources. No other book presents so many cases of kanjō in such depth and breadth. This book is relevant to readers interested in Buddhist studies, Japanese religions, the history of Japanese culture, and in the intersections between religious doctrines, rituals, legitimization, and performance"--

Bouddhisme --- Buddhism --- Religion and sociology --- Religion and sociology. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual --- Ritual. --- Rituel --- Sociologie religieuse --- Histoire --- History --- 1600-1868. --- Japan --- Japan. --- Japon --- Religion --- Religious life and customs

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"[This book's] chapters document and analyse a wide variety of ritualized practices in which privileged connections with more-than-human entities pertaining to the natural environment plants, animals, minerals, the essential solvent for life on Earth, the Earth itself, and Nature as a whole are put into effect. In doing so, they emphasize the growing importance of such entities in contemporary ceremonial. In complementary fashion, and to my mind more significantly, they also bear witness to the key role ritual plays in bringing these beings to body and mind" by Michael Houseman, Anthropologist and Professor Emeritus, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Universite PSL, France Within the social sciences, other-than-human beings agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to "the living". This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales. Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland. Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- etnologie --- etnografie --- Human ecology. --- Human beings --- Ritual. --- Anthropology of religion. --- Effect of environment on.