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In the 1960's, Kurokawa’s historic nō tradition, as theatre and festival, came under the spotlight of the Japanese public. Advertised as ‘secret nō of the snow country’ it soon became one of the most well-known and long-studied folk performing arts traditions. That a secluded village isolated by mountainous country around it should have developed and sustained a high cultural entertainment such as nō theatre and integrated it into Shinto shrine festivals, prompted considerable interest among folklore scholars, theatre researchers, politicians, and tourists alike. Even today Kurokawa nō continues to be regarded as an example of an earlier form of Japanese culture and folk tradition that essentially has been frozen in time over the course of many centuries. In this volume, the author provides a detailed record of the history and development of Kurokawa nō and the processes of its transmission over the generations. The author also examines its impact on the wider cultural life of Japan and its literary heritage, the travel industry, government policy and folklore traditions in Japan generally. In addition, Kurokawa Nō offers an invaluable, authentic case study in the wider context of notions of Japanese self-perception and self-representation.
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'Greek and Roman Festivals' addresses the multi-faceted and complex nature of Greco-Roman festivals and analyses the connections that existed between them, as religious and social phenomena, and the historical dynamics that shaped them.
Festivals --- Fêtes --- History. --- Histoire --- History --- Fêtes --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Festivals - Greece - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Festivals - Rome - History - Congresses
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The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday
Thanksgiving Day --- Fasts and feasts --- Harvest festivals --- Holidays --- History. --- History
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In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity , Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th century C.E. in the Land of Israel, along with commentaries and introductions. The poems celebrate a range of occasions from the ritual year and the life-cycle: Passover, Shavuot (Pentacost), the Ninth of Av, Purim, the New Moon of Nisan, the conclusion of the Torah, weddings, and funerals. Written in the vernacular of the Jews of living in Palestine after the Christianization of the Roman Empire, these works offer insight into lived Jewish experience during a pivotal age. The volume contextualizes the individual works so that readers from a range of backgrounds can appreciate the formal, linguistic, exegetical, theological, and performative creativity of these works.
Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic. --- Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic --- Fasts and feasts --- History and criticism. --- Judaism --- Church festivals --- Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts --- Fast days --- Feast days --- Feasts --- Heortology --- Holy days --- Religious festivals --- Christian antiquities --- Days --- Fasting --- Liturgics --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Practical --- Church calendar --- Festivals --- Holidays --- Sacred meals --- Aramaic Jewish religious poetry --- Aramaic poetry --- Religious aspects
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This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?
Festivals --- Rites and ceremonies --- Fêtes --- Rites et cérémonies --- Rome --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Histoire --- Festivals. --- Manners and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- 146 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire). --- Fêtes --- Rites et cérémonies --- Grèce --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions
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Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as family banquets, public festivals, and religious feasts. Two distinct patterns of interpersonal affinity and conflict emerge from the Chinese and Greek sources that show men and women organising themselves and interacting with each other in social occasions intended for collective pursuit of pleasure. Through an analysis of the two different patterns, Yiqun Zhou illuminates the different socio-political mechanisms, value systems, and fabrics of human bonds in the two classical traditions. Her book will be important for readers who are interested in the comparative study of societies, gender studies, women's history, and the legacy of civilisations.
S11/0710 --- S11/0605 --- S11/0600 --- S11/0700 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Folklore, festivals --- China: Social sciences--Customs, etiquette --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) --- Fasts and feasts --- Festivals --- Sex role --- History --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Pageants --- Processions --- Church festivals --- Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts --- Fast days --- Feast days --- Feasts --- Heortology --- Holy days --- Religious festivals --- Christian antiquities --- Fasting --- Liturgics --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Practical --- Church calendar --- Holidays --- Sacred meals --- Religious aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles
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This book presents the first comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic aspect of Greek culture for over a millennium, disappeared in late antiquity. In contrast to previous discussions, which focus on the ancient Olympics, the end of the most famous games is analysed here in the context of the collapse of the entire international agonistic circuit, which encompassed several hundred contests. The first part of the book describes this collapse by means of a detailed analysis of the fourth- and fifth-century history of the athletic games in each region of the Mediterranean: Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Italy, Gaul and northern Africa. The second half continues by explaining these developments, challenging traditional theories (especially the ban by the Christian emperor Theodosius I) and discussing in detail both the late antique socio-economic context and the late antique perceptions of athletics.
Athletics --- Sports --- Civilization --- Sports athlétiques --- Civilisation --- History --- History. --- Greek influences. --- Histoire --- Influence grecque --- Antike. --- Sportler. --- Sport. --- Atleten. --- Festivals. --- Toernooien. --- Athletics. --- Sports. --- Ancient --- General. --- Greece. --- Sports athlétiques --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) became known as the ‘doctor of grace’. He developed his theory of divine grace mainly in his systematic treatises directed against the Pelagians (ca. 411-430). Did he however also preach about this complex, and at first sight ‘demoralizing’, issue in his sermons to the people ? In his previous book (BSCH 59), Anthony Dupont studied the profile of the treatment of gratia in the anti-Pelagian sermones ad populum . In a Preacher of Grace Dupont offers an account of the presence of the theme of grace in Augustine’s sermones not situated in the Pelagian controversy. He first studies sermons preached on important liturgical feasts, which belong to the (non-polemical) pastoral preaching genre. They are distributed throughout the 40 years of Augustine’s preaching activity, and are Christological in content and moralising in intention. Secondly, he examines sermons situated in the Donatist controversy, preceding the anti-Pelagian sermons chronologically and differing from them in terms of content. This research provides a global picture of the presence and treatment of gratia in Augustine’s sermones and clarifies the interaction between context, audience and preaching genre on the one hand, and the theme of grace as a whole on the other. It also contributes to the debate on (dis)continuity in Augustine’s thought on grace.
276 =71 AUGUSTINUS:234 --- Academic collection --- Latijnse patrologie-:-Soteriologie. Heilsleer. Genade. Geloof--AUGUSTINUS --- Augustine, --- Grace (Theology) --- Fasts and feasts --- Church year sermons. --- Donatists. --- Church history --- RELIGION / Christian Theology / Soteriology. --- History of doctrines --- Sermons. --- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Sermones ad populum. --- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Fasts and feasts -- Sermons. --- Grace (Theology) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Church year sermons --- Donatists --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Sermons --- Grace (theology) --- Religion / christian theology / soteriology. --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Sermons, Church year --- Church festivals --- Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts --- Fast days --- Feast days --- Feasts --- Heortology --- Holy days --- Religious festivals --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Christian heresies --- Church year --- Christian antiquities --- Days --- Fasting --- Liturgics --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Practical --- Church calendar --- Festivals --- Holidays --- Sacred meals --- Salvation --- Law and gospel --- History --- Religious aspects
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Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how they came to be a key element in Greek thought and behavior, and how the Greeks exploited the symbolic value of cattle as a way of structuring social and economic relations. Jeremy McInerney explains that cattle's importance began with domestication and pastoralism: cattle were nurtured, bred, killed, and eaten. Practically useful and symbolically potent, cattle became social capital to be exchanged, offered to the gods, or consumed collectively. This circulation of cattle wealth structured Greek society, since dedication to the gods, sacrifice, and feasting constituted the most basic institutions of Greek life. McInerney shows that cattle contributed to the growth of sanctuaries in the Greek city-states, as well as to changes in the economic practices of the Greeks, from the Iron Age through the classical period, as a monetized, market economy developed from an earlier economy of barter and exchange. Combining a broad theoretical approach with a careful reading of sources, The Cattle of the Sun illustrates the significant position that cattle held in the culture and experiences of the Greeks.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Animal sacrifice --- Cattle trade --- Cattle --- Fasts and feasts --- National characteristics, Greek --- Pastoral systems --- History. --- Religious aspects --- History --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Economic conditions --- Bovins --- Pastoralisme --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Fêtes religieuses --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Industrie --- Grèce --- Vie religieuse --- Conditions économiques --- Greek national characteristics --- Cattle industry --- Church festivals --- Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts --- Fast days --- Feast days --- Feasts --- Holy days --- Religious festivals --- Bos taurus --- Herding systems --- Pastoralism --- Animal industry --- Meat industry and trade --- Heortology --- Christian antiquities --- Days --- Fasting --- Liturgics --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Practical --- Church calendar --- Festivals --- Holidays --- Sacred meals --- Sacrifice --- Bos --- Livestock --- Animal culture --- Livestock systems --- Herders --- Herding --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Vaches --- Grèce --- Élevage --- Antiquité --- Conditions économiques --- Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
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Music --- Sociology of cultural policy --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Bilzen --- 529 --- C3 --- muziek --- Bilzen [gemeente in arrondissement Tongeren - BE] --- Muziekgeschiedenis (jazz en lichte muziek) --- Kunst en cultuur --- 812 --- Jazz en lichte muziek - Muziekgeschiedenis Jazz --- 78.39.1 --- departement PHL Music 09 --- pop- en rockmuziek --- festivals
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