Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Author : Richard P. Werbner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780719019296
Sacred Journey to Ladyhood a Woman's Guide Through Her Write of Passage
Author : Connie Omari Lpc Ncc
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1481710036
Book Description
Sacred Lady is a term coined by Connie Omari that emphasizes the highest degree to which a woman creates her best self. Connie begins the sacred journey by inviting her readers to understand the ways in which a lack of a rite of passage for women in the United States severely hinders our emotional and psychological welfare. Recognizing the absence of such a formal ritual, Connie models the concept of a Sacred Lady by utilizing her clinical, educational, international, and spiritual experiences to create a rite of passage specififi c to the needs of women in the United States. The concepts included along this journey are selfconfidence, intimate relationships, intuition, family, personal identity, and spirituality. By utilizing these themes, Connie incorporates her knowledge of evidence-based practices and her relationship with God to educate and empower her readers. In doing so, Connie dares to challenge societal norms and expectations, uncovers avenues for embarking upon personal healing, and creates a pathway for her readers to empower themselves, their families, their communities, and the greater world. Interested readers, Connie welcomes you to join the Sacred Journey to Ladyhood.
Rituals of Sacrifice
Author : Vincent James Stanzione
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826329172
Book Description
Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University
Women's Rites of Passage
Author : Abigail Brenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780742547483
Book Description
Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.
African Religions
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199790582
Book Description
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Tongnaab
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0253111838
Book Description
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Embodying Charisma
Author : Helene Basu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134746938
Book Description
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research. It addresses the most recent debates on the encounter between Islam and modernity and presents important new comparative ethnographic material. Embodying Charisma re-examines some basic concepts in the sociology and anthropology of religion and the organization of religious movements.
Ultimate Ambiguities
Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782386106
Book Description
Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities,” assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia
Author : Thomas Gregor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520228529
Book Description
Amazonia and Melanesia are half a world in distance, yet their cultures bear similarities in the areas of sex and gender. This work looks at ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized.
Religion and Global Culture
Author : Jennifer I. M. Reid
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2003-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0739160168
Book Description
Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H. Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the rituals of African immigrant communities in the United States, the making of Mohawk sweet grass and black ash baskets, the religious experience of prisoners in the Nazi holding camp of Westerbork, and the regional repercussions of contemporary multi-national business. By locating religion in the conflicted and cooperative relationships of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Religion and Global Culture calls on scholars of religion to reconfigure their interpretive stances from the perspective of the material structures of the modern, globalized world.
