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Musical Ritual and Ritual Music
This article explores music as a religious ritual accompaniment within the realm of Balinese Hinduism in Bali, Indonesia, and the spiritual dimensions of music as a “tool” and a “ritual” in itself, within the Hindu-based Siddha Yoga practices and ...
Brita Renée Heimarck
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Discurso ritual Ritual Discourse
El presente artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre el discurso ritual, su caracterización y la forma como se da en la comunicación que establecen los seres humanos con lo sobrenatural.
NÉSTOR ALEJANDRO PARDO GARCÍA
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The purpose of this study was to validate the efficacy of a customized vitamin-mineral supplement on blood biomarkers in pre-menopausal females. Women (21–40 years old) who were apparently healthy were recruited from the local community (ClinicalTrials ...
Shelby C. Osburn +12 more
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This issue of Approaching Religion is dedicated to Terhi Utriainen, Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. It is published on the 7 November 2022, Terhi’s sixtieth birthday, and contains reflections and research articles written by Terhi’s colleagues in Finland, the UK and the Netherlands.
Helena Kupari, Maija Butters
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Ritual education has become an important social approach to disciplining individuals and constructing value identity because of its unique attributes and its capacity to reshape individual behaviors and values through ritual practice. Only by properly
Li Xin
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RITUALS OF INITIATION AND TRANSITION AS A MEANS OF SOCIALIZATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL
The relevance is caused by contemporary social issues such as breakdown of social structures, crisis in culture, search for identities, interethnic and interracial conflicts, formation of new social strata and hierarchies, reevaluation of moral and ...
Alexander V. Atamanov
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The Chinshō Yasha-hō 鎮將夜叉法 and the Adaptation of Tendai Esoteric Ritual
This study aims to investigate the ritual of a peculiar scripture entitled Chinshō yasha-hō 鎮將夜叉法 (Ch. Zhenjiang yecha fa. “Tantric Ritual of Chinshō Yakṣa”). The Japanese deity Chinshō Yakṣa is a Tendai variation of Vaiśravaṇa (Ch. Pishamen/Jp. Bishamon
Pei-ying Lin
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The Structual-Semiotic Meaning of Ritual and the Problem Relating to the Transposition of Meanings [PDF]
The author analyses the semiotic particularities in the formation and development of various levels of meaning of religious ritual. He suggests that various contexts, which reflect the specific design of various religious and cultural processes and give ...
Aleksandr Prilutskii
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Feminist Theologies: Looking Back to Look Ahead
Feminist theologies in the U.S. are the reason why gender has changed religions. Feminist studies in religion and social activism go hand in hand. These twin foci form a useful backdrop for understanding contemporary feminist spirituality which is a ...
Mary E. Hunt
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Why do criminals use rituals? Past work argues that criminal rituals provide a sense of continuity or certainty in an inherently uncertain environment. We argue instead that rituals play an important organizational role. Criminal rituals facilitate internal governance and promote group activity through three mechanisms: creating common knowledge ...
Skarbek, David Benjamin, Wang, Peng
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