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Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity
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ISBN: 1134739877 0203459784 1280057793 0203450795 9780203450796 9780415182799 0415182794 9780415182805 0415182808 0415182794 0415182808 9780203459782 9781280057793 9786610057795 6610057796 9781134739875 9781134739820 9781134739868 1134739869 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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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

Time and sacrifice in the Aztec cosmos
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ISBN: 0585109745 9780585109749 0253334004 9780253334008 Year: 1998 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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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.

Ancient faith and modern freedom in John Dryden's "the hind and the panther"
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ISBN: 0813210658 9780813210650 081320898X 9780813208985 Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Catholic University of America Press

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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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