Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Lydia Van Leersum-Bekebrede ◽  
Martijn Oosterbaan ◽  
Ronelle Sonnenberg ◽  
Jos de Kock ◽  
Marcel Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Spaces

Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development: The Case of Shenzhen

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122098324
Author(s):  
Man Guo ◽  
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
Cultural Governance ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
The Village ◽  
International Status

Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies, supplemented with information about other cases, we show that in Shenzhen local cultural forms show resilience and increasing public presence, while also being shaped by inclusive cultural policies that are informed by the national drive towards reinstating traditional Chinese values as part and parcel of national identity. One manifestation is the enactment of the traditional ritual space of the village in urban architecture, such as the duality of ancestral hall and village temple, often at so-called “cultural squares,” and the expression of territorial ambitions of lineages in competitive projects of redevelopment. We suggest enhancing the concept of cultural governance by the concept of governmentality to grasp these phenomena analytically.

Doing and Becoming: Warlpiri Rituals and Myths

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-170
Author(s):  
Barbara Glowczewski
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ritual Spaces

This chapter analyses the relation between Warlpiri myth and ritual from the perspective of the cosmological and ritual differentiation of male and female. It is a challenging repositioning of gender in relation to religion and spirituality based on an Aboriginal cosmologic which values a mythical androgyny of some hybrid totemic human and non human ancestors of current humans and their totemic species, animals, plants, or phenomena like rain or fire. To reactualise such a virtual androgyny in themselves, both men and women perform ceremonies reenacting through dances, songs and painted bodies the totemic travels but in ritual spaces restricted to one gender. In this ritual separation, they are both involved in land tenure and dream revelation of new designs to paint, sing or dance as a reactualisation of a virtual collective and earth memory. Women can dream for men and more rarely men dream for women. First published in French in 1991.

Ritual spaces of Shenzhen

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-70
Author(s):  
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath ◽  
Guo Man ◽  
Feng Xingyuan
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Spaces

Public Masculinities at the Feast

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-168
Author(s):  
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
Male Authority

This chapter takes readers on processions through Williamsburg, focusing on a trio of ritual spaces in feast geography: the Questua, the Line of the March, and the parish’s shrine. It explores the hierarchy of masculinities within this Catholic community and how those are performed in how men navigate neighborhood space. Manhood, masculinity, and male authority are contingent on props, stuff, clothing, and setting but are also institutionally granted and achieved in the eyes of other men. Men aspire to and achieve manhood through lifelong involvement with the feast. This chapter examines how life stage matters to ideals of manhood and masculinity and how fatherhood represents the promise of new generations dedicated to the feast and parish. It argues that heterosexuality is central to the community’s vision of a thriving feast and examines the marginalization and excision of gay men from that vision.

scholarly journals Engendering liminality: The experience of re-enchantment in wild woman workshops

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-434
Author(s):  
Carine Plancke
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
North West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Wild Woman ◽  
Ritual Spaces

According to Paul Heelas, new spiritualities radicalize the expressivist strand in modernity and, hence, not only affirm modern values but also react against them. In particular, they challenge the ‘bounded self’ as foundational for the modern being and progress. Charles Taylor, in discussing the emergence in modern times of ‘the buffered self’, points to three important changes: disenchantment, the loss of the complementary play between structure and anti-structure, and the replacement of the idea of cosmos with that of a neutral, mechanical universe. This article, through a detailed ethnographic study, explores how these changes are temporally counteracted in spiritual women workshops in North-West Europe focused on the trope of the ‘wild woman’. Moreover, it shows that these retreats bring into being ritual spaces of liminality, which have the potential to engender experiences of re-enchantment and/or give a new sense of interpersonal and cosmic connection.

Enshrined Fortification: A Trialogue on the Rise and Fall of Safed

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-290
Author(s):  
Uri Zvi Shachar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Ritual Spaces

The study of castles has formed a major part of crusade historiography since its inception in the early nineteenth century. Fortification has been taken to represent the magnificence of the efforts to rule the Holy Land and the battle between Christianity and Islam. Recently, however, scholars have recognised that, inasmuch as castles were celebrated as the epitomes of resilience and hostility, military architecture was far more dialogical than previously noticed. The design of castles involved a highly nuanced familiarity with the culture from which they were intended to defend. This article seeks to show that not only the physical characteristics of castles but also ideas about what made them religiously successful, in their capacity to enact and protect ritual spaces, were shaped through a dynamic inter-religious dialogue. Taking Safed as a case study, this article brings together three narratives—in Latin, Arabic and Hebrew—that share the attempt to laud the castle by drawing a dialectic between its strategic might and the sanctity of the soil upon which it is built. While the three accounts differ radically in their political stakes, the rhetorical strategies they employ in order to contemplate the spiritual efficacy of the castle is profoundly entangled.

Architecturally Modified Caves on Rapa Nui: Post-European Contact Ritual Spaces?

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Stevenson ◽  
Caitlin Williams ◽  
Everett Carpenter ◽  
Caitlin S. Hunt ◽  
Steven W. Novak
Keyword(s):  
Rapa Nui ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Ritual Spaces

scholarly journals Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shi‘ism

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-140
Author(s):  
Edith Szanto
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
Visual Piety ◽  
Semiotic Theory

In her book, Ingvild Flaskerud once and for all dispels the idea that Islamlacks and opposes all forms of visual art. Hers is a pioneering work, whichguides her readers through Twelver Shi‘i visual culture in Iran. She framesher discussion by drawing on semiotic theory, particularly Charles SandersPeirce and Roland Barthes, in order to show both the interpretive possibilitiesinherent in visual piety and the ways in which meaning is fixed.Flaskerud is uniquely positioned for writing about visual piety, as she hasalready produced an artistic visual film (“Standard Bearers of Hussein:Women Commemorating Karbala,” 2003) on Shi‘i women’s practices inIran. Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shi‘ism is a Geertzian “thick description”(Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures) composed of three parts,each of which is followed by black-and-white pictures analyzed in thatpart. The first two parts address two iconographic themes respectively. Thethird discusses the usage of pious art in votive practices and ritual spaces ...

MINIATURE IN EVERYTHING BUT MEANING: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MINIATURE VESSELS AT HOMOL'OVI I

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha G. Fladd ◽  
Claire S. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
Two Alternatives

The most common explanations for the appearance of miniatures in the archaeological record are drawn from practice theory. Two alternatives stem from learning theories, while a third is based in ritual practice and performance. First, miniatures may represent early attempts at craft production by children or novice adults. Second, they could serve as children's toys used for enculturation purposes. Third, miniatures may be produced for use in rituals or as offerings. These explanations are not mutually exclusive; all may be part of the life history of a single artifact. Previous archaeological and ethnographic work on miniature ceramic vessels in the Southwest has variously supported all three prominent explanations. In this article, we examine the miniature vessel assemblage from Homol'ovi I, a prehispanic pueblo in northern Arizona, through a synthetic analysis of craft mastery, use, and deposition. While various life history trajectories are indicated, the miniature vessels at this ancestral Hopi village appear in similar depositional contexts. Specifically, these objects serve as important components in the preparation or closure practices of ritual spaces throughout the pueblo.

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