Gods Temples And Ritual Practices

Author : Ton Derks
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053562543
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods, Temples, and Ritual Practices written by Ton Derks and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Gallien - Siedlungsgeschichte - Tempel - Ritus - Religion - Götter.

Author : Katherine Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135054894
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual written by Katherine Eaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged, and much of the ritual in temples was devoted to offering a representative sample of goods to the gods. After ritual performances, produce was paid as wages to priests and temple staff and presented as offerings to private mortuary establishments. This redistribution became a daily ritual in which many basic necessities of life for elite Egyptians were produced. This book evaluates the influence of common temple rituals not only on the day to day lives of ancient Egyptians, but also on their special events, economics, and politics. Author Katherine Eaton argues that a study of these daily rites ought to be the first step in analyzing the structure of more complex societal processes.

Author : Richard J. Reidy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532031998
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everlasting Egypt written by Richard J. Reidy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everlasting Egypt: Kemetic Rituals for the Gods continues Richard Reidys groundbreaking work and collects more temple rituals from Egypt. The author presents rites for personal and group use, augmenting and updating those in his first volume, Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World. The guidebook: Presents over 37 rituals for Gods, Goddesses, and Annual and Lunar Festivals in a form designed to assist practitioners in restoring the ancient rites of Egypt; Provides for modern usage, with key ritual texts coming from authenticated ancient sources, as well as commentaries and background information; Includes a comprehensive Introduction with a model for organizing a modern Kemetic Temple or Group; Includes updated Egyptian vocalizations and a pronunciation key; Offers practical information for conducting these rituals in todays world. These ritual texts reveal once more the deeply spiritual understanding of humanitys relationship to divinity that characterized the ancient Egyptian sense of the sacred. Cover Image: Ritual scene from the Temple of Hathor at Deir el Medina. Ptolemaic Period. Matthew Whealton, 2018.

Author : Michael Willis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107460164
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual written by Michael Willis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Michael Willis examines how the gods of early Hinduism came to be established in temples, how their cults were organized, and how the ruling elite supported their worship. Examining the emergence of these key historical developments in the fourth and fifth centuries, Willis combines Sanskrit textual evidence with archaeological data from inscriptions, sculptures, temples, and sacred sites. The centre-piece of this study is Udayagiri in central India, the only surviving imperial site of the Gupta dynasty. Through a judicious use of landscape archaeology and archaeo-astronomy, Willis reconstructs how Udayagiri was connected to the Festival of the Rainy Season and the Royal Consecration. Under Gupta patronage, these rituals were integrated into the cult of Vishnu, a deity regarded as the source of creation and of cosmic time. As special devotees of Vishnu, the Gupta kings used Udayagiri to advertise their unique devotional relationship with him. Through his meticulous study of the site, its sculptures and its inscriptions, Willis shows how the Guptas presented themselves as universal sovereigns and how they advanced new systems of religious patronage that shaped the world of medieval India.

Author : Jennifer Laura King
Publisher : Bookademy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of the Gods written by Jennifer Laura King and published by Bookademy. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the enigmatic world of ancient temples with “House of the Gods - Mysteries of Ancient Temples”, a captivating exploration of the architectural wonders, sacred rituals, and profound symbolism that defined ancient civilizations. From the majestic pyramids of Egypt to the intricate temples of India, this book unveils the secrets hidden within these sacred structures, delving into their cosmic alignments, spiritual significance, and enduring legacy. Through meticulous research and compelling narratives, readers will embark on a journey through time, unraveling the mysteries of sacrifice, deciphering ancient inscriptions, and tracing the profound influence of these temples on modern religious practices and architectural marvels.

Author : Daniel de Coppet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926626
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Rituals written by Daniel de Coppet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical viewpoints, they reveal the ultimate and contradictory values to which each society as a whole is attached.

Author : Richard Caton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens written by Richard Caton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens" is a highly valued compilation of two lectures delivered by Richard Caton at the Royal Institution of Great Britain at the turn of the 20th century. Written after over two decades of visits and on-site research in Greece, Richard Caton became an expert on some of the ancient religious history of the original population in Athens. His expertise led to plausible speculation about the religious rituals that took place in ancient Greece which have continued to be studied over a century after his lectures.

Author : Kenneth Dean
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904742946X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One written by Kenneth Dean and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals. Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included. Find information about a film related to the book here.

Author : Harsha V. Dehejia
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods Beyond Temples written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sacred in the Indian tradition is more an experience than a concept and goes much beyond the narrow confines of an organised temple or even a shrine. The gods of this tradition, as well as those who hold them sacred, are simple and unpretentious yet dignified and self-assured. Whether it is a tree that is held sacred or a naturally occurring stone that is reverred, a river that is the embodiment of divinity itself, an ancestor that is the embodiment of divinity itself, an ancestor that is worshipped, a fabric that is simply draped, a road side shrine on a busy street or a votive terracota horse that is lovingly made and offered, a narrative scroll that holds its audience spell-bound; here is religion at work that is as spontaneous as it is intense, charged with faith, fervor and commitment; now private and now shared, that forms an integral part of the lived lives of these common people, be they rural or urban, tribal or traditional. The rituals and practices for these deities are neither scripted nor canonized, but what they may lack in grandeur, erudition and ceremony, they more than make up in the faith and feeling that they generate. In a civilisation which has encountered majestic truths and erected grand temples, these sacred manifestations and expressions of the ordinary people tend to be sidelined or dismissed by scholars as well as the world at large, as minor or lesser gods worthy of curiosity but not of serious study, but it is important to remember that they have a beauty and presence of their own in the pluralistic Indian tradition.

Author : Claudia Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428851
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium written by Claudia Moser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.