The Akitu Festival
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781463202651
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781463202651
Author : Albert Kirk Grayson
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher : Gorgias Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Akit̄u festival
ISBN : 9781931956345
Using tools of social anthropology, this book describes the ancient Babylonian akntu, or New Year festival. It reconstructs the festival and its customs.
Author : Albert Kirk Grayson
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781575060491
Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781593331580
Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient Babylonian akitu or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akitu was more than just a religious ceremony - it acted as a political device employed by the monarchy and/or the central priesthood to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the akitu festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling class to promote state ideology. The akitu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool.
Author : Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Akîtu
ISBN :
Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198027065
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author : Svend A. Pallis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1990-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780404182038
Author : Catherine M. Bell
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019511051X
Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.
Author : Jan A. Wagenaar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Calendar, Jewish
ISBN : 9783447052498
The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.