The Character Adaptation of Masked Puppet Figures in Ruwatan Ritual [PDF]
, 2016 One myth that is believed by people living in Duwet village is distress that threatens human beings from when they are born till the day they die. As one way to overcome the distress, people, especially those who are living in Duwet village, hold ritual ...
Hidajat, R. (Robby)
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Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]
, 2015 Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
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Implementing voluntary assisted dying in New South Wales correctional settings
Medical Journal of Australia, Volume 223, Issue 2, Page 71-74, July 2025.
Diya Ahluwalia, Leigh Haysom
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The Syntactic Roles of Touch in Shared Festivals in Kerala: Towards an Analysis of Ritual Categories
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2019 The following discussion of touch as a syntactic-semantic unit in ritual structures is based on an analogy of ritual and language postulating a 'deep structure' or a 'universal grammar' for rituals as presented by Frits Staal, Axel Michaels, and Naphtali
Ophira Gamliel
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Sacrifice and business : a comparative study of ritual and commercial cattle slaughtering in Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso [PDF]
, 2006 All over the world meat plays an important role in the nutrition of people. Mostly it is considered to be a special source of strength and health. In many peoples' minds the consumption of animal products, such as muscle, fat, blood, inner organs and ...
Zimmermann, Hans
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 779-795, June 2025.
Anil Gomes
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Toward a Theory of Pre-Modern European Folk Ritual: The Case of Polish Wigilia [PDF]
, 2007 This study aims to formulate and evaluate a methodology for the study of rituals in historical time periods. The methods developed in the field of Ritual Studies for the investigation of present-day, observable rituals are assessed in terms of their ...
Slevinski, Sarah Catherine Kane
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"Eating alone is painful" : an interdisciplinary and ethnographically inspired sociolinguistic investigation into Vietnamese mealtime ritual invitations : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 Invitations are a commonplace part of language ritual at meals in Vietnamese culture. They are verbal and non-verbal signals extended around everyday meals and interpreted as offers or invitations for food and/or company at meals.
Dang, Thi Mai Duyen
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TemenosDenmark, Sweden, and Norway have in recent years seen a wave of Qur’an burnings, a subset of Qur’an desecration, involving largely non-religious fringe actors.
Marius Linge, Sindre Bangstad
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Ritual orders and ritologiques: a terminological quest for some neglected fields of study
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2003 The topic presented in this paper lies at the crossroads between ritual studies and ritual theory. In order to get an idea of the field of study, it may be useful to distinguish between the following general approaches to the study of ritual.
Michael Stausberg
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