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The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible.A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.

Jews --- Judaism --- Antiquities. --- Books and reading --- History --- Customs and practices --- Biblical Reception. --- Liturgy. --- Magic. --- Piety. --- Psalter. --- Reading. --- Second Temple. --- Talmudic. --- authority. --- daily life. --- diaspora. --- exegesis. --- linear reading. --- performance. --- praise. --- psalmody. --- pslams. --- rabbinic thought. --- ritual practice. --- scripture. --- scroll. --- second century. --- seventh century. --- tannaim. --- tannaitic period. --- Bible. --- Reading --- Devotional use --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. --- 70-638 --- Antiquities --- Bible

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Rituals, although seemingly traditional and fixed, a re v ery m uch contextualand subject to change. Rituals do not exist and are not performed in a vacuum,and are not independent of time and place. They are deeply influenced by thecultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which they appear. Trendsin culture also lead to ritual trends. Therefore, rituals are a dynamic field, whichis reflected in this Special Issue of Religions regarding "Exploring RitualFields Today".

form-of-life --- monastic spirituality --- ritual practice --- ritual transfer --- satī --- widow-burning --- India --- ritual criticism --- chronotopicity --- adaptive reuse --- church architecture --- ritual --- liturgy --- funeral --- ritual dynamics --- space --- boundaries --- cemetery --- religious groups --- minority groups --- arena --- pluralization --- cocreation --- ritualizing --- childbirth --- pregnancy --- spirituality --- meaning making --- embodiment --- deconsecration --- desecration --- consecration --- profanation --- church buildings --- sacred space --- church reuse --- altar --- Roman Catholic Church --- canon law --- rituals --- hospice --- cultural analysis --- good death --- pilgrimage --- institutional religion --- routes --- sacred places --- landscape --- agency --- power --- entrepreneurs --- Europe --- n/a --- satī

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This collective volume examines the concept, theory, practice, and representations of the liturgy in the Middle Ages, including its sacramental developments, its religious and political implications, its forms of ritualization, and its doctrinal presumptions. It aims to create a space for interdisciplinary dialogue between history, theology, canon law, art history, political philosophy, and symbolic anthropology. It privileges the examination of the transferences between the spiritual and the temporal, the sacred and the profane, the political and the religious.

Religion & beliefs --- ritual practice --- sacrament --- character --- in persona Christi --- Aquinas --- image --- figura --- medieval liturgy and drama --- poetry in medieval liturgy --- sacraments and medieval liturgy --- interdisciplinarity --- Eve --- Romanesque sculpture --- time --- space --- liturgy --- original sin --- iconography --- Genesis --- semiotic --- sacred drama --- Catalonia --- medieval law --- royal funerals --- Renaissance --- propaganda --- succession crisis --- papacy --- Julius II --- Hispanic monarchy --- Isabella and Ferdinand --- Habsburgs --- martyrology --- calendars --- encyclopaedic writing --- Frankish empire --- Carolingians --- Libri vitae --- commemoration --- manuscripts --- Salzburg --- Reichenau Abbey --- 9 October --- conquest of Valencia --- James I --- crusades --- Festa de l’Estendard --- liturgy of Jerusalem --- Ildefonsus of Toledo --- Adaulfus of Compostela --- miracle of punishment --- successor --- church --- cathedral --- chair (cathedra) --- chasuble --- conquest --- mosque --- ritual --- medieval Iberia --- n/a --- Festa de l'Estendard

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This collective volume examines the concept, theory, practice, and representations of the liturgy in the Middle Ages, including its sacramental developments, its religious and political implications, its forms of ritualization, and its doctrinal presumptions. It aims to create a space for interdisciplinary dialogue between history, theology, canon law, art history, political philosophy, and symbolic anthropology. It privileges the examination of the transferences between the spiritual and the temporal, the sacred and the profane, the political and the religious.

Religion & beliefs --- ritual practice --- sacrament --- character --- in persona Christi --- Aquinas --- image --- figura --- medieval liturgy and drama --- poetry in medieval liturgy --- sacraments and medieval liturgy --- interdisciplinarity --- Eve --- Romanesque sculpture --- time --- space --- liturgy --- original sin --- iconography --- Genesis --- semiotic --- sacred drama --- Catalonia --- medieval law --- royal funerals --- Renaissance --- propaganda --- succession crisis --- papacy --- Julius II --- Hispanic monarchy --- Isabella and Ferdinand --- Habsburgs --- martyrology --- calendars --- encyclopaedic writing --- Frankish empire --- Carolingians --- Libri vitae --- commemoration --- manuscripts --- Salzburg --- Reichenau Abbey --- 9 October --- conquest of Valencia --- James I --- crusades --- Festa de l'Estendard --- liturgy of Jerusalem --- Ildefonsus of Toledo --- Adaulfus of Compostela --- miracle of punishment --- successor --- church --- cathedral --- chair (cathedra) --- chasuble --- conquest --- mosque --- ritual --- medieval Iberia

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This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ‘theatre’ is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performances—theatrical and non-theatrical; sacred and profane— presented in a religious setting, thus including ritual performance and oral performance. Likewise, literature in this volume broadly encompasses both written and oral literatures, including drama, poetry, hagiography, legend, mythology and prosimetric narrative or chantefable for telling and singing. The contributors to the issue draw on a wide range of materials from historical, philosophical and literary texts to field reports and archaeological finds to archived documents and local gazetteers to personal interviews and participant observations. While all the essays are collected under the theme of ‘Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre’, they differ from each other in subject matter, source material and research approach. Rich and varied as they are, these essays fall into two main categories, namely, a historical approach to religion and ritual recorded in (written and visual) texts and an integrated approach that combines historical inquiries into written and visual texts with ethnoanthropological fieldwork on religious rituals and associated performances.

Religion & beliefs --- Cheng 誠 --- cheng 成 --- sincerity --- completion --- religion --- ritual --- Classical Confucianism --- literature --- baojuan (precious scrolls) --- telling scriptures --- scroll recitation --- chinese folklore --- popular religion --- buddhist narrative --- China --- Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang) --- Miao (Hmong) ethnic group --- oral performance --- ritual practice --- sorcery and witchcraft --- collective memory --- cultural heritage --- state presence --- temple festival --- temple theatre --- Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival --- the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun) --- Shangdang --- Liaozhai zhiyi --- Daoism --- dramas --- Sichuan --- willow --- Yuan zaju --- shamanism --- legend --- metaphor --- Chinese religions --- Chinese literature --- Ming --- Deng Zhimo --- hagiography --- Lü Dongbin --- Xu Xun --- Sa Shoujian --- print culture --- Pei Yue --- poems --- Buddhism --- monks --- social association --- Miao culture --- performance studies --- performance ethnography --- indigenous studies --- folk traditions --- mythology --- the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) --- Han rhapsody (fu) --- Han paintings --- Hantomb stone reliefs --- the Wuliang Shrine