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Ritual studies is not a school, nor is it a theory or a method; it is a multi- or interdisciplinary platform for the academic, critical, and systematic study of ritual, or in the words of the founding father of ritual studies, Ronald Grimes: it is a field.
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Ritual and transgression: a case study in new music [PDF]
This research lies on the concepts of ritual and narrative as applied in a case study of a musical theatre piece. In traditional musical narrative the focus is on construction, and one could speak of fields around which hierarchies, systems and rules of ...
Carvalho, Sara, Marinho, Helena
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Gods, games, and the socioecological landscape
The social sciences have long recognized a relationship between religion and social ecology. Upon closer inspection, religious systems not only correspond to important features of a society’s social ecology, but also appear to directly address these ...
Benjamin Grant Purzycki +3 more
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This study aims to explore how the Ruwatan Bumi ceremony in the Banceuy Traditional Village, Subang - West Java can become a Sundanese Ethnopedagogy system that internalizes the values of Sundanese local wisdom in the younger generation.
Wendi Nilpa Apriana +4 more
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Function beyond function? Reflections on the functionality of the autonomous
Of all the arts, music has always seemed to be the most autonomous, free from the bonds and limits of representation. Hence its functionality within this very autonomy or non-functionality: its link with the sacred, elevation over the economics of ...
Mladen Dolar
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Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Ngesti Utomo Rodhat Dance as a Means of Bersih Sendang Dadapan Ritual in Boyolali Regency [PDF]
Rodhat dance is one of the dances used for Bersih Sendang ritual in the slope of Mount Merbabu. This study investigated the role of Rodhat dance in Bersih Sendang ceremony.
Suharji, S. (S)
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Eine liturgische Handschrift mit Tonar der Zagreber Diözese aus dem 17. Jahrhundert
The study deals with a thus far little considered compilation of rituals. It emerged in a corner of southern Hungary saved from the Ottoman occupation where no liturgical chant book sources from the Middle Ages survive.
Ágnes Papp
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Propitiating the \u3ci\u3eTsen,\u3c/i\u3e Sealing the Mountain: Community Mountain-closure Ritual and Practice in Eastern Bhutan [PDF]
This interdisciplinary study examines a community ritual in Mongar, eastern Bhutan, in connection to its socio-ecological context. We provide an in-depth documentation of the tsensöl (btsan gsol) deity-propitiation ritual to ‘seal’ territory and prohibit
Gyeltshen, Dorji, Kuyakanon, Riamsara
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In the central highlands of Odisha, India, Kutia Kondh families navigate a precarious reality shaped by productive autonomy, decentralized authority, and material and relational uncertainty. Abundance and destitution are finely balanced in a world where humans, animals, ancestors, and spirits are co‐present and co‐dependent but also opaque and ...
Sam Wilby
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