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Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders.The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinni
Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual. --- Ritual in mass media. --- Performance. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Competence --- Work --- Mass media --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Ceremonies --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Rites et cérémonies --- Rituel --- Rendement au travail --- Ethnopsychologie --- Identité (Psychologie)
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"This introduction to the Mexica (or Aztec) cosmos explores sacrifice as both the foundation for and an ethical response to existence in the richly textured world of sixteenth-century Mexico. Drawing on archaeological remains, sculptures, pictorial and calendrical codices, and original translations of Nahuatl poetry and folktales, Kay Almere Read describes a world in which every being was allotted a specific lifetime and where sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book presents a convincing interpretation of what sacrifice meant in the religious life of the Mexica people - and how human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted."--Jacket.
Aztecs --- Sacrifice --- Human sacrifice --- Aztec calendar. --- Time --- Aztec calendar --- Mexico --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Calendar, Aztec --- Calendar --- Sacrifice, Human --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Time (Theology) --- Religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Religion --- Religious aspects --- Aztèques --- Calendrier aztèque --- Sacrifices humains --- Temps --- Aspect religieux --- Ritual murder
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Christianity and literature --- Freedom of religion --- Christian poetry, English --- Allegory --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Freedom of worship --- Intolerance --- Liberty of religion --- Religious freedom --- Religious liberty --- Separation of church and state --- Freedom of expression --- Liberty --- History --- History and criticism --- Law and legislation --- Dryden, John, --- James --- Religion. --- Catholic Church --- In literature. --- England --- Church of England --- Church history --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Dryden, John --- Drāydan, Jawn, --- Dryden, --- Author of Absalom & Achitophel, --- Author of Absalom and Achitophel, --- Absalom & Achitophel, Author of, --- Drydon, John, --- Bays, --- Bayes, --- Person of quality, --- D-n, --- Driden, John, --- Drajden, Džon, --- Драјден, Џон,
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