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Rituals of War

2012
In many communities in equatorial Africa, the cult of the ancestors has sought to bind together living and deceased members of a lineage through a series of sacred rites.1 Veneration of forebears allows for direct access to the ancestral realm where beneficent spirits work to protect and guide descendants.
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Greek Rituals of War

2013
AbstractThis chapter examines the Greek military ritual of war. It evaluates the recent interpretations of military ritual, indicating that the term “ritual” in the present day has taken on so many connotations as to reduce its analytic utility, and that the claim that rituals promote “social cohesion” requires careful review.
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Roman Rituals of War

2013
AbstractThis chapter demonstrates the continuity and change in, and problematic sources about, Roman rituals, which were linked to the incidence of war and peace. The augurium salutis and the closing of the shrine of Janus Geminus are the two rituals that could only be conducted in time of peace.
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Substitution in Ancient Mesopotamian War Rituals

International Journal of Ancient History
Ritual performance has its own set of beliefs. In particular, ritual in the broadest sense, performative behavior that is accepted as normal and not identified as such, or external conduct are the means by which the generative matrix of ideology is produced.
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Legacies of the Korean War: Transforming Ancestral Rituals in South Korea

Memory Studies, 2013
The radical bipolarization between the left and the right during the global Cold War was manifested in places such as postcolonial Korea in terms of civil strife and war, in which achieving national unity became equivalent to excising one or the other side from the body politic.
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A Review of Baekje's Rites and the Ritual of the Warring States

The Bukak History Academy
Military protocols are divided into the ones for emergencies and the ones for ordinary times. This study aims to examine the patterns of Baekje's specific military protocols with a focus on the aspects of lines and animal hunting protocols whose records are relatively found in “Baekjebongi” of Samguksagi of Baekje's military protocols for ordinary ...
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