Rites Of Place

Author : Julie Buckler
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810166593
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rites of Place written by Julie Buckler and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely across time and geography, Rites of Place is to date the most comprehensive and diverse example of memory studies in the field of Russian and East European studies. Leading scholars consider how public rituals and the commemoration of historically significant sites facilitate a sense of community, shape cultural identity, and promote political ideologies. The aims of this volume take on unique importance in the context of the tumultuous events that have marked Eastern European history—especially the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. With essays on topics such as the founding of St. Petersburg, the battle of Borodino, the Katyn massacre, and the Lenin cult, this volume offers a rich discussion of the uses and abuses of memory in cultures where national identity has repeatedly undergone dramatic shifts and remains riven by internal contradictions.

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763617
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Take Place written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study of religion. Smith stresses the importance of place—in particular, constructed ritual environments—to a proper understanding of the ways in which "empty" actions become rituals. He structures his argument around the territories of the Tjilpa aborigines in Australia and two sites in Jerusalem—the temple envisioned by Ezekiel and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The first of these locales—the focus of one of the more important contemporary theories of religious ritual—allows Smith to raise questions concerning the enterprise of comparison. His close examination of Eliade's influential interpretation of the Tjilpa tradition leads to a powerful critique of the approach to religion, myth, and ritual that begins with cosmology and the category of "The Sacred." In substance and in method, To Take Place represents a significant advance toward a theory of ritual. It is of great value not only to historians of religion and students of ritual, but to all, whether social scientists or humanists, who are concerned with the nature of place. "This book is extraordinarily stimulating in prompting one to think about the ways in which space, or place, is perceived, marked, and utilized religiously. . . . A provocative example of the application of humanistic geography to our understanding of what takes place in religion."—Dale Goldsmith, Interpretation

Author : Hannah Kent
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316243906
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

Author : Alan Lupo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rites of Way written by Alan Lupo and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of locating Boston's Inner Belt freeway, with review of urban transportation planning and decisionmaking in U.S. cities.

Author : Robert Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of the Rites and Ceremonies which Took Place at the Consecration of Archbishop Parker written by Robert Willis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195345742
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rite out of Place written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.

Author : Steven Salaita
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608465780
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncivil Rites written by Steven Salaita and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Salaita’s employment was terminated in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government’s summer assault on Gaza. Salaita’s firing generated a huge public outcry, with thousands petitioning for his reinstatement, and more than five thousand scholars pledging to boycott UIUC. His case raises important questions about academic freedom, free speech on campus, and the movement for justice in Palestine. In this book, Salaita combines personal reflection and political critique to shed new light on his controversial termination. He situates his case at the intersection of important issues that affect both higher education and social justice activism.

Author : Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190074221
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Borders written by Paulina Ochoa Espejo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land legitimately belongs. Hence a territory is legitimate only if it belongs to a people unified by a civic identity. Sadly, this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to choose. If we want territories, then we can either have democratic legitimacy, or inclusion of different civic identities--but not both. The resulting politics creates mass xenophobia, migrant-bashing, hoarding of natural resources, and border walls. To escape all this, On Borders presents an alternative model. Drawing on an intellectual tradition concerned with how land and climate shape institutions, it argues that we should not see territories as pieces of property owned by identity groups. Instead, we should see them as watersheds: as interconnected systems where institutions, people, the biota, and the land together create overlapping civic duties and relations, what the book calls place-specific duties. This Watershed Model argues that borders are justified when they allow us to fulfill those duties; that border-control rights spring from internationally-agreed conventions--not from internal legitimacy; that borders should be governed cooperatively by the neighboring states and the states system; and that border redrawing should be done with environmental conservation in mind. The book explores how this model undoes the exclusionary politics of desert islands.

Author : Diego Durán
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806112015
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar written by Diego Durán and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hako: a Pawnee Ceremony written by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: