Mexican Religious Practices, Popular Catholicism, and the Development of Doctrine

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Orlando O. Espin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Popular Catholicism

scholarly journals AS PRÁTICAS CULTURAIS/RELIGIOSAS AFROINDÍGENAS NA AMAZÔNIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Elivaldo Serrão Custódio ◽  
Piedade Lino Videira ◽  
Moisés de Jesus Prazeres Dos Santos Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Healing Rituals ◽  
Popular Catholicism ◽  
Therapeutic Assistance ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Traditional Communities

O presente texto tem por objetivo analisar as práticas culturais/religiosas afroindígenas no cenário da Amazônia. A cosmovisão religiosa dos povos da floresta e seus referenciais espaciais são materializados por meio das práticas mágico-religiosas de cura, pajelanças, benzeções e o manejo das plantas medicinais, bem como pela assistência terapêutica realizada por puxadeiras e parteiras, exemplificando assim a riqueza e densidade simbólica construída por essas comunidades tradicionais ao longo da história e do encontro entre matrizes étnico-religiosas distintas. Entre as práticas afroindígenas, destaca-se as cerimônias religiosas do catolicismo popular como festejos a santos, ladainhas, cortejos e folias, rituais de cura, entre outros. CULTURAL / RELIGIOUS AFROINDIGENOUS PRACTICES IN THE AMAZON The present text has as objective to analyze Afroindigenous cultural / religious practices in the Amazonian scenario. The religious worldview of the forest peoples and their spatial referents are materialized through magical-religious practices of healing, pajelias, blessings and the management of medicinal plants, as well as therapeutic assistance performed by pullers and midwives, thus exemplifying wealth and density symbolism built by these traditional communities throughout history and the encounter between distinct ethnic-religious matrices. Among the Afroindigenous practices, the religious ceremonies of popular Catholicism such as festivities to saints, litanies, processions and rituals, healing rituals, among others, stand out.

Profaning Jewish Mores in Chochana Boukhobza's Un été à Jérusalem

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Arenberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The City ◽  
Traditional Roles

As a transnational Israeli writer, Chochana Boukhobza delves into the complex problem of crossing borders in Un été à Jérusalem (1986), a text which focuses on the unnamed protagonist's trip from Paris to visit her family during the summer months in Jerusalem. Although the narrator had resided in Israel previously, she is forced to grapple with her ‘Otherness’ in Jerusalem, especially as a Jew originally from Tunisia. The narrator's crisis of exile is defined by her sense of disconnection to her family, the city, Israeli politics, and women's traditional roles. In this essay, particular emphasis will be placed on the protagonist's penchant for profaning Jewish cultural and religious practices, which is articulated through a series of corporeal transgressions. To launch this revolt against the patriarchal structure of the nation in Israel, the narrator rejects the submissive role assigned to Jewish-Tunisian women, and, in so doing, dismantles traditional gender roles.

Diagram for Fire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Bialecki
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Will ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Economic Choices ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How are miracles something that are at once unanticipated, and yet worked for? Finally, what do miracles tell us about Christianity, and even about the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with those questions through an detailed ethnographic study of the Vineyard, a Southern-California originated American Evangelical movement known for believing that biblical-style miracles are something that all Christians can perform today. This book sees the miracle a resource and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, and as an immanently-situated and fundamentally social means of producing change that operates through taking surprise and the unexpected, and using it to reimagine and reconfigure the will. A Diagram for Fire shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices such as prophesy, speaking in tongues, healing, and battling demons; but it also shows how the miraculous as a configuration also ends up shaping other practices that seem far from the miracle, such as a sense of temporality, music, reading, economic choices, and both conservative and progressive political imaginaries. This book suggests that the open potential of the miracle, and the ironic constriction of the miracle’s potential through the intentional attempt to embrace it, has much to tell us not only about how contemporary Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity both functions and changes, but about an underlying mutability that plays an important role in Christianity and even in religion writ large.

Seeing, imagined, and lived

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anandi Silva Knuppel
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theories Of Practice ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
Definition Of

Scholarship on Hindu traditions and practices proposes the practice of darshan as fundamental to Hindu traditions, particularly in temple worship, observing that devotees seek out images of deities primarily to see them and “receive” their darshan. These works typically gloss the definition of darshan with a sentence or two about seeing, exchanging glances, and/or receiving blessings. In this paper, I focus on the ways in which darshan is ideally imagined in conjunction with other bodily sensory practices through sources of authority, such as texts and senior devotees, to create a specific sensory experience and expectation in the transnational Gaudiya Vaishnava community. I then look to the lived realitiesof darshan in this tradition, specifically how devotees negotiate the structures created through sources of authority in their daily lives. Through this juxtaposition of idealized and lived darshan, I argue that we need a new approach towards theories of practice to take into account the complexities of darshanic moments in this and other religious practices.

Emotions, Music, and Logos

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Petri Järveläinen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Mental Language ◽  
Emotions In Music

The article introduces a cognitive and componential view of religious emotions. General emotions are claimed to consist of at least two compounds, the cognitive compound and the affective compound. Religious emotions are typically general emotions which are characterized by three specific conditions: they involve a thought of God or godlike, they are significant for a person feeling them and their meaning is derived from religious practices. The article discusses the notion of spiritual emotions in Ancient theology and compares the idea of it with emotions in music. By referring to the notion of mental language, it is argued that some religious emotions are like emotions in music and as such they can be interpreted as tones of Logos.

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