The Effect of Dongam(東巖) Ryu Jang-won's(柳長源) 󰡔Sangbyeon Tonggo(常變通攷)󰡕on the History of Ritual Studies during the Late Joseon Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 149-188
Author(s):  
Gil-yeon Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Studies ◽  
History Of

Sermons as Practical and Linguistic Performances: Insights from Theory and History

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
Abdulkader Tayob
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Historical View ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Marking Time

Abstract Sermons lend themselves to ambiguous identification in the study of religions. On the one hand, they are easily recognisable practices, delivered on particular days of the week, or when special occasions or needs arise. They are usually given in clearly defined places at clearly defined times. They are given by designated or recognized individuals that vary according to the respective religious traditions. On the other hand, sermons are speech performances that may and often do vary from one occasion to the next. While prone to a certain formalism, sermon speech acts are open to variation from time to time, and from preacher to preacher. To extend the possibilities offered by sermons for reflection and analysis, I explore some of the theoretical insights suggested for sermons in ritual studies and from the history of sermons within religious traditions. There is no consensus within ritual studies, but there are some useful ideas and suggestions that cover and extend the practices and speech acts that constitute sermons. More significantly, I found the longue durée of the sermon in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to be more resourceful. The historical view of the sermon in comparable religious traditions brings forth enduring elements such as reading texts, employing rhetoric, producing effects (including affect), signifying and challenging authority, and marking time and space. More than the theoretical models for rituals from anthropology and religious studies, this historical perspective brings out the value of the practices and speech elements that constitute sermons.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 2-17
Author(s):  
Risto Uro
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pluralistic Approach ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter offers a guide to the reader for understanding the nature of ritual studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field, with particular emphasis on its relevance to the study of the history of early Christianity. Three characteristics are singled out. Ritual studies is distinguished by: (1) a pluralistic approach to the definition of ‘ritual’; (2) an increased interest in theory; and (3) the application of interdisciplinary perspectives on ritual. The chapter also responds to the criticism that has been raised against using the concept of ritual and ritual theory in the study of past rituals and argues that ritual theory enriches historical and textual analysis of early Christian materials in a number of ways. Ritual theory contributes to drawing a more complete picture of early Christian history and offers a corrective to a biased understanding of early Christianity as a system of beliefs and practices. Finally, examples from the present Handbook are taken to demonstrate how the ritual perspective creates a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative approaches which both stimulate new questions and enrich old ones.

scholarly journals At vandre i takt: Om paraders og processioners rituelle betydning

2017 ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Bonding ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Efficacy ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Origin

English abstract: The purpose of this essay is to cast light on a previously under-acknowledged phenomenon in the history of religions and the phenomenology of religion. First, I suggest a heuristic typological distinction between parades and processions. Potentially, the differentiation between the two may be linked to a different origin and partly to a different intrinsic relationship to two diverse types of religion. Whereas parades are inherently related to hunter-gatherers’ forms of religion and cosmic and global types of religion, processions, I surmise, are intrinsically related to urban forms of religion. The distinction, however, is of the nature of an idealtype. Secondly, I include a trajectory of scholarship in ritual studies that has not featured largely in the history of scholarship on ritual in either anthropology or the study of religion. I argue that parading and joint processions may give us a clue to the social efficacy of ritual and its biological underpinnings: Doing the drill enhances social bonding. My point is of a basic Durkheimian nature, but I take Durkheim a step further by undergirding his ritual and cultic understanding with a primatological and biological basis. Dansk resume: I artiklen retter jeg opmærksomheden mod to forhold. For det første foreslår jeg en typologisk skelnen mellem parade og procession og argumenterer for, at de har baggrund i to forskellige religionstyper. Mens processionen hidrører fra by- eller arkaisk religion og forudsætter templet og offerinstitutionen som religionens omdrejningspunkt, er paraden knyttet til jæger-samler-religion, men får en renæssance i kosmos- og globalreligion. For det andet inddrager jeg en forskningstradition inden for ritualstudier, som underligt nok ikke har spillet nogen fremtrædende rolle i den antropologiske og religionsvidenskabelige ritualforskning, men til gengæld er betydningsfuld i den sociologiske litteratur. I tæt sammenhæng med mine aktuelle forskningsinteresser argumenterer jeg for, at der i denne tradition ikke alene ligger et betydeligt potentiale for at forstå ritualers socialt positive (og lejlighedsvis negative) betydning, men også deres basalbiologiske grundlag. På sin vis forsøger jeg i artiklen at underbygge den durkheimske grundopfattelse af kultur, samfund og religion med et biologisk primatologisk fundament. Heri ligger ingen kritik af Durkheim; men derimod en udvidelse og underbygning.

Insights from Cognitive and Ritual Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Risto Uro
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Research Questions

Since the 1990s, scholarly debates and discussions in Gnostic or Nag Hammadi studies have largely revolved around the issues of whether the category of “Gnosticism” is helpful or detrimental in the analysis of ancient texts and how to classify the texts that were traditionally labeled “gnostic” as well as the groups that produced them. The debate about the category of “Gnosticism” in particular has brought up important issues concerning the ideological commitments of the scholars working on the Nag Hammadi texts and helped to analyze the identity formation process that shaped the history of the variety of early Christian groups during the first three centuries, but the debate has also somewhat exhausted itself. There is certainly room for new approaches and research questions. The panel on religious experience organized by the SBL Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism section and the two papers by Michael Kaler and Philip Tite presented in the panel and published in BSOR can be seen as welcome moves towards something new. Both papers share an interest in what might be called religious experience studies and therefore engage themselves in cross-disciplinary theoretical reflection and cross-fertilization between recent trends in religious studies and gnostic studies. This paper provides a critical response to these two papers with a particular emphasis on ritual and cognitive studies.

scholarly journals THE APOTHEOSIS OF SITI KHOTIJAH: ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN A BALINESE GALACTIC POLITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Mark Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
Common View ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Alternative Reading

This article seeks to describe the way in which Gusti Ayu Made Rai, an eighteenth-century Balinese princess from Badung became Raden Ayu Siti Khotijah, one Indonesia’s few widely recognized female Muslim saints. In so doing I develop an alternative reading of the dynamics of the history of religion in Bali, countering the common view that it is a static monolithically Hindu tradition. Rather than turning inward as the surrounding areas embraced Islam, Balinese kingdoms sought to include Muslims and elements of Islam in scared narratives and geographies. Two distinct theoretical approaches are used in this analysis: the structural approach to indigenous Southeast Asian states pioneered by Robert Heine-Geldern in the early decades of the twentieth century and the performative approach to ritual studies developed by Victor Turner in the 1970s.

Up All Night Out of Love for the Prophet: Devotion, Sanctity, and Ritual Innovation in the Ottoman Arab Lands, 1500–1620

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Parkes Allen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
History Of

Abstract Devotion to the Prophet Muḥammad was a major feature of late medieval and early modern Islamic religious life across much of the Islamic world. The history of this devotion remains understudied in relation to its importance and pervasiveness. This study takes as its locus of analysis a particular instance of early modern devotion: a weekly, public all-night session of ṣalawāt upon the Prophet that would become known as the maḥyā. Developed by the peasant-turned-shaykh Nūr al-Dīn al-Shūnī in late Mamluk Egypt, performance of the maḥyā would spread over the following century throughout the Arab Ottoman world, undergoing changes, provoking controversy, and becoming embedded in the sacred spaces and ritual life of one city after another. I approach the history of the maḥyā as a discrete and legible instance of ritual change in an Islamic context, exploring this instance of communal devotion to the Prophet through such lenses as ritual studies and the spatial turn, examining the intersection of this devotional ritual with practices of subjectivity, the use and contestation of ritual space, and the meaning, regulation, and experience of the night.

scholarly journals The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Cultural World

Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum towards producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of early Christianity employing advances made in the field of Ritual Studies. The Handbook will give a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches (Part I), central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity (Part II), and the most important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions (Parts III and IV).

scholarly journals Casting an ‘Outsider’ in the ritual centre: Two decades of performances of ‘Rural Migrants’ in CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Central Position ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Spring Festival ◽  
History Of ◽  
Processual Approach

Recent years have seen the rise of the ‘processual approach’ in media ritual studies, which focuses on the making of media rituals through various ‘ritualised actions’ rather than assuming them as isolated events distinctive to ordinary broadcasting. This article advances this line of argument by shedding light on a previously less-discussed form of ritualised action: the ritualised casting. It examines how the character of ‘rural migrant’ has been staged in the 28-year history of China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala and how the casting of this ‘social outsider’ served as a dynamical strategy in the process of ritualisation of the Gala. The case study demonstrates a persistently central position of the image of ‘rural migrants’ in the Gala in the past 21 years, yet the scripting of this ritual subject varied as the agendas and crises of ritualisation shifted. This ritualised casting not only delivered a self-replicating effect that made the success of the Gala as natural and desired, but also, it exhibited a power to converge the media’s categories with other social categories, which further legitimised the ritual authority of the Gala as a mediated centre in the festival space of the Chinese New Year.

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