The Experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Nurit Stadler
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Canonical Texts

In this chapter the author analyzes the ritualistic inner experience in female sacred places. The author shows the centrality of the body and the “ritual of the body in motion.” As mentioned in the book’s introduction, in the Holy Land, places of veneration and rituals are based on canonical texts or mythologies of particular saints. As such, the assumption was that rituals are a product of texts and their translation into action. However, this chapter shows different dynamics of these rituals. Although the canon and its physical manifestations are robust, it is mostly “the body in motion” that shapes the experience.

Voices of the Ritual

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
Cultural Media

Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of and manifestation of rituals at female saint shrines in the Holy Land. In the Middle East, a turbulent, often violent place, states tend to have no clear physical borders, and lands are constantly in flux. Here, groups with no voice in the political, cultural, media, and legal arenas look for alternative venues to voice their entitlements. Members of religious minorities employ rituals in various sacred places to claim their belonging to and appropriation of territory. What does this female ritualistic revival mean—politically, culturally, and spatially? The author bases her analysis on a long ethnographic study (2003–2017) that analyzes the rise of female sacred shrines, focusing on four dimensions of the ritual: the body in motion, female materiality, place, and the rituals encrypted in the Israel/Palestine landscape. In the practices at these shrines, mostly canonical, the idea of the “body in motion” is central, with rituals imitating birth and the cycle of life using a set of body gestures. These rituals, performed by men and women, are intimate forces that extend between the female saint and the worshippers. Female materiality strengthens intimacy and creates a bridge between the experience and the material. The intimacy between saint and worshipper created with the body and the female material scattered around represent keys to intimate claims to the land, making the land familiar to worshippers. Rituals encrypt female themes into the landscape that has for decades been dominated by masculine-disseminated war and conflict.

The Churches of Palestine and their Influence on Early Christian Architecture

Antiquity ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (46) ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfons Maria Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Special Part ◽  
Holy Places

The churches of the Holy Land play a very special part in the lengthy controversies as to the origin and formation of the Christian basilica, since particular significance is attributed to them as constituting a norm from which the basilica type developed. For example, Wulff remarks :l ' If any region anywhere played a leading part in the development of the early Christian basilica, it is Palestine, including the whole coast of Syria to Philistia, where, under Constantine the Great, building was already developed with the express purpose of fostering the cult in the holy places '. This view, illuminating in and for itself, is today generally accepted ; it cannot, however, be maintained against the result of recent excavations. In this article chief emphasis is laid on the churches of Constantine, which are of especial importance not only because of their age, but in particular because they stand on the most sacred places of Christendom.

Sartre and somatics for the pedagogy of movement in contemporary dance

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Maisie Beth James ◽  
Caroline Stockman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Traditional Dance ◽  
Individual Potential

Drawing on somatic practice, psychology, philosophy and the dance experience, this article operationalizes Sartre’s ideological response to movement pedagogy. The ‘thisness’ experience of embodiment during traditional dance styles negatively impacts on the realization of our body’s somatic potential. However, Sartre’s ‘body-for-itself’ mode can be stimulated with certain somatic practices, due to the concentration on the inner experience and sensations present in the body. In this sense, the body becomes a learning outcome in itself, through a deep and respectful connection with the dancer’s inner being. Pedagogically, this combination of Sartre’s theory with holistic techniques of the self, specifically the fundamental principles of Feldenkrais and dance literacy, can benefit the realization of individual potential during dance, and optimize positive embodiment. This article discusses initial materializations of the learning experiences of the dance student, informed by Sartre’s thinking on embodiment, and a theoretical discussion of the pedagogical implications of Sartre’s ideas for somatic pedagogy in contemporary dance.

The Emergence of the Military Order in the Twelfth Century

1985 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Forey
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
First Crusade ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
Order Of Santiago ◽  
The Military

At the time when encyclopaedic works on the military orders began to be produced in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was widely held that the military order was an institution which had existed for most of the Christian era. Many of the orders catalogued in these volumes were reported to have been founded well before the period of the crusades, although there were often conflicting opinions about the precise antiquity of a particular foundation. Various dates were, for example, given for the establishment of the military order which the knights of the Holy Sepulchre were thought to constitute: although some held that it had been founded shortly after the first crusade, its creation was attributed by others to St James the Less in the first century A.D., while its origins were also placed in the time of Constantine and in that of Charlemagne. The foundation of the order of Santiago, which in fact occurred in 1170, was often traced back to the ninth century; yet while some linked it with the supposed discovery of the body of St James during the reign of Alfonso 11, others associated it with the legendary victory of Clavijo, which was placed in the time of Ramiro i. The accumulation of myth and tradition recorded in these encyclopaedias has exercised a prolonged influence on historians of the military orders: disproof has not always been sufficient to silence a persistent tradition. It is, nevertheless, clear that the Christian military order, in the sense of an institution whose members combined a military with a religious way of life, in fact originated during the earlier part of the twelfth century in the Holy Land.

Prayer as a metacognitive activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya M Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Content ◽  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Intense Absorption ◽  
Metacognitive Activity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The central act of prayer involves paying attention to inner experience—to thoughts, images, and the awareness of the body—and treating those sensations as important in their own right, rather than as distractions from the everyday business of living. There are many metacognitive consequences of this basic act. Its overt features include the redirecting of attention, which cognitively restructures mental content, leading the person who prays to focus on positive topics like gratitude, to set achievable goals, and to hope. Prayer’s less obvious metacognitive features include an invitation to absorption or being caught up in the act of imagination, which makes what must be imagined feel more real. The light trance associated with intense absorption is the result of a metacognitive act that alters the relationship of those who pray to their own mental domain. In short, we should reconceive prayer as a fundamentally metacognitive act.

Altered inner body perception in anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clelia Malighetti ◽  
Santino Gaudio ◽  
Daniele Di Lernia ◽  
Marta Matamala-Gomez ◽  
Giuseppe Riva
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Vestibular System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Crucial Feature ◽  
New Treatments

Inner body perception is a multisensory type of body perception that relates primarily to interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular system. Inner body perception may be disturbed in people with eating disorders (EDs), causing distortions or mismatches between how the body is perceived and how the body physically is. Despite this, there has been no systematic review that directly investigate inner body perception, and in particularly across anorexia and bulimia nervosa. To address these gaps, we conducted a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines. Twenty-six studies were included. Deficits in interoception and proprioception were observed across anorexia and bulimia nervosa, suggesting that alteration of inner body perception might be a crucial feature of eating disorders. From this perspective, inner body deficits in anorexia and bulimia nervosa represent a promising field that needs to be further explored, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments that enhance the role of the inner experience as a therapeutic instrument.

To Jerusalem

2021 ◽  
pp. 146-169
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Tour Guide ◽  
Return Trip ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Desert Fathers ◽  
The Family

Chapter 8 depicts the voyage to and settlement in Jerusalem, with a stop in Alexandria and surroundings, to meet bishops and holy men. On a return trip to Egypt, they visited the so-called desert fathers and attempted to leave them funds. Egypt and Palestine (called the “Holy Land” by Christians in this era) were the prime destinations for Christian pilgrims, women as well as men, from the fourth century onward. Some “Westerners” settled there and founded monasteries, including Melania’s own grandmother and other Roman aristocrats. The Bible provided a virtual tour guide for pilgrims in Palestine. The family of Constantine saw to the erection of the churches of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Accompanying these developments was the burgeoning quest for relics (of the “True Cross,” of the body parts of martyrs and saints). Melania, too, sought relics for the monasteries she established in Jerusalem. For some years before undertaking the building of monasteries and soliciting inhabitants for them, however, she lived in semi-solitary confinement on the Mount of Olives. The author of the Life describes the ascetic practices in these establishments. After the monasteries were built, there is little evidence that Melania participated much in the larger worship life of Jerusalem, which is described in other sources. The author of the Life aligns his heroine with his own religious preferences and depicts her as a fierce opponent of “heresy.”

XLIII. An Account of the Body of King Edward the First, as it appeared on opening his Tomb in the Year 1774. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. V.P.S.A. and F.R.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1775 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 376-413
Author(s):  
Joseph Ayloffe
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Third

The royal warrants repeatedly issued by King Edward the Third, and his two immediate successors, directed to the treasurer and chamberlains of their exchequer, De cera renovanda circa corpus regis Edwardi primi; and the total silence of all our historians, and public records, as to a similar attention having been paid to the corpse of any other of our deceased momarchs; are circumstances, that not only indicate the high veneration in which King Edward the First was held during a long series of years after his decease; but when considered, together with the strong injunctions under which, it is said, that king in his last moments laid his son, to send his heart to the Holy Land, attended by 140 knights, and to carry his remains along with the army until Scotland was reduced to obedience, gave rise to an opinion, that upon his decease a more than ordinary care was taken to preserve his body from putrefaction; and that, in subsequent times, the utmost endeavours were used for preventing its decay.

Between conservation and restoration: the wall paintings in the church of the Crusaders in Abu Gosh and the authentication of the site as Emmaus

2019 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 935-958
Author(s):  
Rachel Ouizemann
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
The Church ◽  
Holy Place

Abstract The wall paintings in the Crusader church in Abu Gosh were conserved and restored in two different operations in the last thirty years. While the conservation revealed new iconographies of the original wall paintings, the restoration added and changed details. The discernment between the two allows us once again to discuss the meaning of the original Crusader decoration program as a whole. This article argues that the frescoes decorating the church reference a set of prominent sacred places in the Holy Land, and suggests an interpretation of the murals in regard to the holy place to which it is linked and to the edifice it adorns.

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