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Galadari, Abdulla. "Spiritual ritual : esoteric exegesis of Hajj rituals." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=211314.
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Religion has a spiritual message embedded, as its purpose is to establish a relationship between the seen and the unseen worlds. However, to allow people to understand its spiritual message, it uses symbolism in such a way that the physical person would try to comprehend the inner meanings of the spiritual message that lies therein. This study is not about ‘how' the Hajj rituals are to be performed, because the answer to that question is trivial and have been thoroughly studied throughout centuries. This study is an attempt to answer the question ‘why.' Why is the Hajj to be performed in a certain way? This study delves into what must be a deeper meaning. Its methodology is through the etymological usage of the terminologies textually and intertextually between Scriptures, including the Qur'an and the Bible. It attempts to explore the polysemous nature of the root words and to resurrect the inner meanings that can be ascertained from the root. This study introduces a new methodology for Scriptural hermeneutics, while comparing the methods used by Biblical and Qur'anic scholars. Once the methodology is established, it is applied to increase understanding of the inner meanings of the Hajj rituals portraying the journey of a dead soul from death, sacrifice of the ego, resurrection into life, and spreading the seeds and Water of Life to other dead souls trying to fight their egos and, likewise, resurrect them into life.
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Robinson, Rebecca. "Ritual and sincerity in early Chinese mourning rituals." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106338.
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This thesis examines the emphasis Eastern Han (24 – 220 CE) men placed on mourning their mothers and peers within the context of ritual theory and practice. The ritual texts, used as the basis for an imperial ritual reform in 31 BCE, provided instructions on how to properly perform the mourning rites, as well as whom to mourn. Full mourning was to be worn for fathers and superiors, yet in the Eastern Han, many did not heed these prescriptions, choosing in addition to mourn their mothers, equals, or inferiors, thereby subverting the traditional patriarchal model. By examining theories of ritual current in the Han, the mourning prescriptions themselves, and introducing the concept of sincerity in ritual, I argue that the changes in mourning patterns during the Eastern Han are indicative of the beginnings of a fundamental change in beliefs towards ritual and the ancestors.Cette thèse examine l'importance que les hommes des Han orientaux (24 – 220 EC) accordaient au deuil envers leurs mères et leurs semblables dans le cadre de la théorie et de la pratique du rituel. Les textes rituels, sur lesquels fut établie une réforme impériale du rituel en 31 AEC, fournissaient les instructions nécessaires pour déterminer comment performer correctement les rituels de deuil, de même que ceux et celles à qui ces rituels pouvaient être adressés. Le deuil complet devait être observé pour les pères et les supérieurs, mais chez les Han orientaux, plusieurs n'observèrent pas ces directives et choisirent plutôt de porter le deuil de leurs mères, de leurs égaux, voire de leurs subordonnés, renversant ainsi le modèle patriarcal traditionnel. Grâce à une analyse des théories du rituel pratiqué chez les Han, des directives relatives au deuil elles-mêmes, et en introduisant le concept de la sincérité dans le rituel, j'avance que les changements dans les structures du deuil au cours de la période des Han orientaux révèlent les premier changement fondamentaux dans les croyances envers le rituel et les ancêtres.
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Cunningham, Cindy Lynn. "Rituals." VCU Scholars Compass, 1992. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4494.
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Shannon, Avram Richard. "Other Peoples' Rituals: Tannaitic Portrayals of Graeco-Roman Ritual." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429830562.
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Gu, Chen. "Everyday Rituals." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1441.
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This thesis traces the trajectory of Chen Gu’s work over a three year period, looking at major influences such as Bustos and Saville, on her painting and film projects. She explores the concept of childhood, memory, and portraiture.
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Nichols, Thomas Andrew. "Rites & Rituals." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1186071144.
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Elbadri, Rachid. "Shia rituals the impact of Shia rituals on Shia socio-political character." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Mar/09Mar%5FElbadri.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Kadhim, Abbas ; Baylouny, Anne M. "March 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 23, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Shia, Ashura rituals, Battle of Karbala, Shia Schism, majalis al-ta'ziya, ziyarat Ashura, ziyarat arba'in, al-mawakib al-husayniyya, tashabih, zangeel, latm, qira'ah, qari or khateeb, niyahah, Shia procession, self-flagellation, Emile Durkheim, Khomeini, Sistani, Motahhari. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87). Also available in print.
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Awang, Mois Awang Hasmadi. "Selako worldview and rituals." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251519.
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Christensen, Michelle Amber. "Rituals and Adoptive Families." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2555.
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The purpose of this study was to discover the type of rituals utilized by adoptive families to welcome a child into their home. Family member obtain a sense of identity through the enactment of rituals Forming family identity is especially important to the adoption process. This study examined the types and amount of rituals reported by 20 adoptive couples. The top five most helpful rituals were obtained. The rituals were then divided up into categories. The results of this study found that patterned interaction rituals are used most often and are most helpful in welcoming an adoptive child. Family traditions and family celebration rituals followed in their usage and helpfulness.
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Kyriakidis, Evangelos. "Ritual and its establishment : the case of some open air rituals in Minoan Crete." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://kar.kent.ac.uk/8474/.
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This work aspires to contribute to the study of ritual in as constructive and methodologically sound way as possible. The contentious issue of ritual interpretation is deliberately avoided. Instead, methodologies for positively recognising ritual and assessing its establishment are developed. The study of the establishment of ritual is based on the premise that it can be a valuable source of information for the dynamics and establishment of the given society. The entire study takes the special perspective of prehistoric and more specifically of Minoan archaeology, concentrating on the case of some open air rituals. Firstly, ritual value is attributed to some Minoan open air sites and to the relevant iconography. Subsequently, following the methodology developed in the first chapters, it is shown that all studied rituals were highly established. Moreover, some of these ritual sites could be seen as entities which also managed, produced, and invested wealth, demonstrating the great establishment of the respective rituals, and further contributing to it through their own establishment. The high level of establishment of the Minoan ritual sphere, as seen through the open air rituals, points to the great importance of rituals to the dynamics of Minoan society. It also implies a high level of establishment of other spheres such as the political or that of social relations. Finally it contributes to the overall establishment of Minoan society, as a factor which unified the politically fragmented island. Our discussion of the Minoan material demonstrated that the methodologies developed for the attribution of ritual value to an activity and for the assessment of its establishment can be beneficial for prehistoric archaeology and for most social sciences. The Minoan material profited from these ideas but also showed that their implementation is feasible.
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Persson, Lovis. "Buddha på burk : En religionssociologisk studie av Rituals reklamfilm "The Ritual of Laughing Buddha"." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444117.
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This study has three aims. The first one is to review which Buddhist symbols are used in Rituals commercial “The Ritual of Laughing Buddha”, where Rituals is a cosmetic company, with a main focus on skin care. The second aim with my study is to examine how semiotic resources are used to depict Buddhist symbols based on multimodal critical discourse analysis, and the third aim is to examine how the concept of banal religion in the theory of mediatization can contribute to the understanding of the representation of Buddhist symbols. This paper will use a multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the commercial and then analyze the material in relation to the theory of mediatization as described by Hjarvard. The semiotic resources made the Buddhist symbols appear explicitly and since several Buddhist symbols were found in the material, the concept of banal religion could be used as a theoretical focus and contribute to an understandning of how Buddhist symbols are used in the commercial. The results show that the commercial is not intended to convey a religious message, but was mainly used to connote emotions such as happiness, warmth and extravagance. Representation of religion is thus found in the commercial, but the Buddhist symbols are used in a different way, and are in a new context than from institutionalized religion.
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Steynberg, Kristen Fay. "Private rituals, public selves : reclaiming urban public space through celebrating the ritual of washing." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45301.
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The thesis explores the existing urban landscape of Jeppestown, specifically with
regard to the consequences of the hijacking of inner-city buildings for residential
purposes. The aim is to reclaim public space from the post-industrial landscape and
reconfigure the existing fabric, by means of a fragile intervention so as to connect the
social realm with the built fabric. The project accepts the hijacked typology of urban
living as part of the context. It is viewed as an existing and ongoing condition, which
far exceeds the current capacity of state-funded housing. From this stance, the project
aims to provide public services that celebrate the rituals of washing in a meaningful
and accessible way. The project endeavours to utilise theories related to African space
to address local contemporary urban issues contextually. It uses the rituals of the
everyday as a muse for creating eventful public space, an amenity which is becoming
increasingly important with the growing densities of South Africa’s cities.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Heise, Ingmar Fédéric. "Buddhist death rituals in Fujian." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573401.
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This thesis examines Buddhist rituals conducted (mainly) by monks for the wellbeing of deceased lay-persons in contemporary Fujian province in Southeast China. Research was conducted within the Bristol project on 'Buddhist Death Rituals in Southeast Asia and China' and sponsored by the AHRC. Based on fieldwork conducted from March-December 2008 in the three urban areas of Xiamen and Quanzhou in Southern Fujian, and the capital Fuzhou in Northern Fujian, and on written materials, such as Buddhist scriptures, monastic public announcements and ritual manuals, I describe and analyse a variety of post-burial rites. They range from small scale rites of offering to nourish and help the deceased during the liminal period of forty-nine days after death and rebirth, to one-to-three day funeral chaodu 'rites of ferrying across' sending off the departed to a better rebirth, ideally held before the end of the forty-nine days liminal period, to the large-scale public rituals of universal liberation held during the so-called 'Ghost Month' and the crown of Buddhist rituals the shuilu fahui or 'Grand Dharma Assembly of Liberation of all Land and Water Beings' .. The research presented here is more like a snapshot or survey of contemporary Buddhist rituals and practices for the dead in Southeast China than an in depth anthropological analysis; my hope is, through this overview, to provide inspiration and basic material for future research .
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Roberts, Joanne. "Family Rituals and Deviant Behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5516/.
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Many researchers have sought to identify the antecedents of deviant behavior. The purpose of this study was to explore whether family rituals might contribute to social control, and thereby reduce deviant behavior. Walter Reckless' containment theory provided the theoretical framework for the study. This theory suggests that both inner and outer containment variables control social behavior. It was proposed that meaningful family rituals would contribute to the development of inner and outer containment, and therefore, reduce the number of deviant behaviors committed by the respondents. In this study, the inner containment variable was self-esteem, and the outer containment variables were participation in conforming activities with family members both inside and outside the home, and participation in extracurricular activities. Two hundred and seven incarcerated respondents and 217 college students responded to three survey instruments, the Family Rituals Questionnaire, the Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventory, and a Family Information Inventory. Findings indicated that the college students reported experiencing more meaningful family rituals than the incarcerated respondents. Results indicate that the two groups differed significantly on all of the major variables. However, meaningful family rituals had little association with self-esteem, and self-esteem had no relationship with deviant behavior. Meaningful family rituals did account for some variation in participation in conforming activities with family members inside and outside the home and for participation in extracurricular activities. However, the variables that were most significant for explaining deviant behavior were the risk factors of age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, neighborhood crime, and parents's deviance. Future research should explore the role of risk factors in explaining deviant behavior and study the role of meaningful family rituals and the role they might play in creating a qualitative difference in family life.
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Mitchell, Darren. "Anzac Rituals – Secular, Sacred, Christian." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22695.
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This thesis argues that Australia’s Anzac ceremonial forms emerged from Christian thinking and liturgy. Existing accounts of Anzac Day have focussed on the secular and Western classical forms incorporated into Anzac ritual and minimised the significant connection between Christianity and Anzac Day. Early Anzac ceremonies conducted during the Great War were based on Anglican forms, and distinctive commemorative components have their antecedents in religious customs and civic rites of the time. Anglican clergy played the leading role in developing this Anzac legacy - belief in Australia in the 1910s and 1920s remained predominantly Christian, with approximately half of believers being Anglican adherents - yet this influence on Anzac ritual has heretofore received scant acknowledgement in academic and popular commentary which views Anzac Day’s rituals as ‘secular’, devoid of religious tradition and in competition with it. Sydney’s Anzac Day in 1916, the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, and the ceremonies that followed through to 1919, illuminate the significant role of the city’s Anglican leadership in early Anzac ceremonial remembrance practice. The history, adoption and adaptation of elemental Anzac commemorative elements such as laying wreaths at memorials and pausing in silence, as well as the unique Australian ‘dawn service’ tradition, reveal their roots in Biblical theology and church approaches to mourning, challenging the secularisation hypothesis. Christian design motifs and inscriptions will also be noted in significant public memorials, adding to the argument that Christianity was the principal cultural repository for responding to the disastrous consequences of the Great War. This study will reveal the deep current of Biblical thinking in Anzac commemoration and how Anzac public remembrance is not only ‘sacred’ in a ‘secular’ formulation but also, fundamentally, Christian.
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Williamson, Melanie. "Early Literacy and Family Rituals." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/27.
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The purpose of this study was to extend the research on children’s early literacy development by examining the practice of daily family rituals. The assumption was that the predictability and affective meaning that rituals provide would create an environment that fosters the development of literacy skills and motivation to learn. Measures included the PALS Prek, PPVT-III, and Family Ritual Questionnaire. Although there were no significant positive relationships between regular family rituals such as dinnertime and reading aloud practices and literacy outcomes, negative correlations were found between the assignment of roles on weekends, the routine of vacations, mother’s work hours, and children’s literacy scores. These findings may indicate some inflexibility among family members and not enough time spent in a variety of spontaneous literacy-building activities.
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Requier, Pierrette Eveline Marie. "Rituals, consecration, and healing, an exploration of women's experiences of self-made rituals as transformative." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/MQ48833.pdf.
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Berinyuu, Abraham. "Healing rituals as theological drama : insights from Kaaba healing rituals among the Frafra in Ghana /." Berlin ;Münster : Lit, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3012700&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Alefjord, Pierre, and Antonio Tortorici. "Consumers rituals inside shopping malls : A qualitative study on consumers shopping rituals inside Swedish shopping malls." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184233.
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Beyond simple shopping needs, nowadays consumers are continuously looking for the consumption of new experiences. This contemporary consumer request also unveils inside shopping centers, which as scholars recognize, are shifting functionality towards becoming centers for customer engagement.Following this trend, marketers are continuously looking into new ways to increase offer attractivity and consequently spur customer engagement. Rituals represent a possible new lens to study consumer behaviour inside the mall landscape and disclose new hidden consumers' processes for value creation.By conducting a pre-study with two mall managers, we sensed their perspective of the mall and individuated the challenges of shopping centers future development and new consumer shopping trends. In a second phase, we focused on analysing the consumer perspective and utilization of the mall by observing their shopping rituals. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 consumers constituting of both Young Professionals and families.In conclusion, different types of rituals were individualized and analysed. By applying rituals to the shopping behaviour of consumers inside shopping malls yielded several insights that resulted to be useful for managers and a valuable contribution to academic research. The results show that mall visitors consume specific rituals inside shopping malls depending on both the target groups (young professionals or families) of consumers as well as the mall experience type (seductive, functional, interactive museum or social). Young Professionals tended to be more spontaneous and socially oriented. However, families tended to shop for functional reasons and often have a planned script of their shopping ritual that they follow throughout their shopping journey at a shopping mall.
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English, Elizabeth. "Vajrayogini : her visualisation, rituals, and forms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313185.
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Madanska, Dessislava. "New Rituals : Materials, Objects and Space." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7426.
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My project unfolds on three different scales: Materials, Objects and a Space. A research on materials and new technique for their transformation, a creation of functional objects out of the transformed materials, and finally, a spatial environment for the created objects. Real-life site visits to various factories and craftsmen, discussions with makers, sourcing leftover materials, transforming materials into borderline art/design objects are among the key elements of my research methodology. The three scales of my work are unified by the notion of Rituals. My understanding of rituals is not about creating a new religion but focuses rather on the activities in our everyday that can become rituals. It is about finding magic in the mundane. Daily routines and rituals are one of the main things that can keep us grounded, especially in a time of crisis. I believe that material explorations and working with the senses are important and relevant for the field of Spatial design and that my approach to engaging different scales within the project brings something new and yet not vastly explored.
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Kelm, Bonnie G. "Art openings as celebratory tribal rituals /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487327695622295.
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Morse, Tal. "Post mortem : death-related media rituals." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3084/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to study whether and how death-related media rituals construct and reconstruct a global cosmopolitan community. The performance of the media at the occurrence of mass death events, may cultivate expressions of grief aimed at reinforcing a certain understanding of the social order. These rituals facilitate a sense of unity and solidarity between members of an imagined community. What kind of community does the enactment of death-related media rituals construct? What is the sense of solidarity they foster? By focusing on the performance of transnational media organisations following mass death events, the thesis studies the ways in which these ritualistic performances function as a social mechanism that informs the audience of the boundaries of care and belonging to an imagined community. Drawing on theories from sociology, media anthropology and moral philosophy, the thesis develops the analytics of mediatised grievability as an analytical tool. It aims to capture the ways in which news about death construct grievable death, and articulate the relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The thesis puts the analytics of mediatised grievability in play and employs it in a comparative manner to study and analyse the coverage of three different case studies by two transnational news networks. This comparative research design captures the complexity of the mediatisation of death in terms of geopolitics, cultural proximity, legitimacy of violence and the morality of witnessing death. The analysis of the three case studies by the two transnational news networks enables to account for different propositions that two of the networks make for their audiences in comprehending remote mass death. These propositions contain different ethical solicitations, each articulating a different understanding of the relational ties between spectators and distant others – some promote a cosmopolitan outlook, and others maintain a communitarian outlook.
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Bond, Anne Cecilia. "Towards rituals in the Holy Land." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Chaulagain, Nawaraj. "Kingship, rituals, and power in Nepal." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2118.
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Drawing on the ritual theory of “rebounding violence” as developed by Maurice Bloch, the contemporary anthropologist, the thesis examined some kingship rituals periodically observed in Nepal and highlighted their political implications. The study also made an assessment of the concept of “divine kingship” in orthodox “Hindu” tradition and traced connections between religion and politics.
In Nepal, kingship is taken as a symbol of sovereign power and national unity, and the king is often revered in public festivals as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, or as a representative of some other divinities such as Indra, Bhairava and the Buddha. The thesis explored such rituals, demystified the concept of “divine kingship,” and displayed through historical evidences how Nepali rulers have appropriated religious occasions for their own legitimacy.
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Menezes, Celso Vianna Bezerra de. "Religiões e práticas religiosas na região do Contestado (SC): os herdeiros de um mundo reencantado." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-08092009-163215/.
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Esta pesquisa visa analisar as práticas religiosas dos devotos de São João Maria, em uma região interiorana do sul do estado do Paraná e do planalto catarinense. A devoção e o culto ao santo são presentes na região onde, há quase um século, ocorreu a Guerra do Contestado, um movimento de cunho milenarista e messiânico. Procura-se, através de uma etnografia multi-situada, apreender estas práticas religiosas com uma proposta teórica que surge de um campo emergente na antropologia de discussões associadas aos estudos de performance. A partir dos estudos de Stanley Tambiah, intenta-se uma abordagem que privilegia os rituais das práticas de culto ao santo apoiado em um diálogo da antropologia com as perspectivas teatrais oriundas da instigante parceria de autores como Victor Turner e Richard Schechner.This research intends to analyze the devotees of Saint João Marias religious practices, from an inland region of Paraná state´s south and from the Santa Catarina´s plateau. The devotion and the cult to the Saint can be found at the region where, almost a century ago, occurred the Contestado War, a millenialist and messianic movement. Using the multisited ethnography, we intend to understand these religious practices, through a theoretical proposal which appears by an emergent anthropology field of discussions related to the performance studies. Based on Stanley Tambiah, we propose an approach that privileges the rituals of these practices, supported by a dialogue between anthropology and theatrical perspectives coming from Victor Turner and Richard Schechner works.
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Kosinskaitė, Jurgita. "Tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120802_121552-83483.
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Jurgita Kosinskaitė, „Tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose“. Darbo vadovas: doc. Dr. Dalia Survutaitė. Tradicijos ir ritualai - pasikartojančios mokyklos gyvenimo formos, kurios kuria mokyklos kultūros unikalumą, jos veiklos bei siekių tęstinumo ir priklausymo bendruomenei, turinčiai istoriją, jausmą. Tradicijų atsiradimas siejamas su Romos kultūra, tačiau ši sąvoka plačiai vartojama ir dabar. Tradicija - pasikartojanti gyvenimo forma, o ritualas - elgesys pasikartojančios gyvenimo formos metu. Ritualai yra pasikartojančių veiksnių seka. Tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimas numatomas norminiais dokumentais. Darbo objektas: Tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose. Darbo tikslas: Atskleisti tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimo bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose reikšmę Darbo uždaviniai: Pedagoginės literatūros dėka atskleisti tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimo galimybes; vadovaujantis vadybos teorijomis aprašyti tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimo prielaidas; ištirti mokinių požiūrį į tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimą bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose; ištirti buvusių mokinių požiūrį į tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimą bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose; ištirti mokytojų, dirbančių bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose požiūrį į tradicijų ir ritualų užtikrinimą bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose. Atlikus tyrimą suformuluotos išvados, kurios teigia, kad tirtų „Ryto“ vidurinės mokyklos ir Ąžuolo gimnazijos kultūros yra puoselėjamos, o tradicijas ir ritualus siekiam užtikrinti.Jurgita Kosinskaitė, „Ensuring of traditions and rituals in general education schools“. Labour leader: Assoc. Dr. Dalia Survutaitė. Traditions and rituals are repeated school life forms that create the uniqueness of school culture, and aspirations of its business continuity and feeling of belonging to a community. The tradition is related to the Roman culture, but this concept is widely used today. Tradition are a recurring form of life and rituals are repetitive behaviors in the form of life. Rituals are repetitive sequence elements. Traditions and rituals are provided by normative documents. The object of work is protection of traditions and rituals in general education schools. Objective: To reveal the oportunity of assurance of traditions and rituals in general education schools with a help of pedagogical literature; to describe the assumption of ensuring of traditions and rituals with a help of management theories; to explore students' views to the ensuring of traditions and rituals in general education; to explore ex students' views to the ensuring of traditions and rituals in general education; ; to explore teacher' views to the ensuring of traditions and rituals in general education; After the study conclusions were made that claim, that culture is fostered and the traditions and rituals are supportet in "Rytas" middle school and „Ąžuolas“ high school.
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Takhar, Amandeep. "How computer culture is mediating courtship' rituals." Thesis, Keele University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522670.
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This thesis explores the role of consumption in cultural change. The research focuses on how consumption of an ethnic online dating website, known as shaadi.com is mediating Sikh courtship rituals. While many recent studies highlight the significance of online dating and virtual communities in a Western context, there has been no detailed exploration of these in relation to the Sikh sub-culture or other similar communities, nor how these sub-cultures experience marriage processes within Western society. The study adopted an interpretivist approach for a longitudinal case study of shaadi.com. In keeping with the interpretivist approach, multiple methods were employed to collate qualitative data from 3rd generation British Sikh members of shaadi.com and their parents. These methods consisted of participant observation and a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Findings illustrated the substantial personalised identity conflicts that were encountered by young British Sikhs as they engaged in the processes leading up to marriage. The integration of Eastern and Western courtship rituals within the space of shaadi. com was a significant aspect of the experiential consumption of this site. Young British Sikhs engaged in a journey of hybrid identity discovery, empowered by the characteristics of shaadi. com culture, such as liminality and ritual transference. This enabled them to negotiate issues relating to intergenerational differences, their British Sikh identity and varying degrees of acculturation (their Britishness") and reacculturation (their "Indianess"). Consequently shaadi.com facilitated young Sikhs in reconfiguring their already hybrid identities. In conclusion a theorisation of this virtual space of hybrid identity negotiation in relation to the British Sikh community is proposed, suggesting four hybrid identity positions. The primary contribution of this study has been to introduce an understanding of how cultural change can be mediated by technology and conceptualise how the computer mediates Sikh courtship rituals. Findings illustrate how shaadi.com mediates cultural transformation and the transition of hybrid identities. This research therefore extends existing knowledge in the field of consumer research in three key areas by examining the intersection of consumption and rituals, ethnicity and acculturation.
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Evison, Gillian Anne. "Indian death rituals : the enactment of ambivalence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:85f22493-a5cf-4611-aa49-a7cf179993ad.
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This work provides a survey of Indian funeral rites, concentrating on ceremonies performed by rural mainland Hindus, who have been divided into the broad social categories of brahmins, caste Hindus and outcastes/tribes. The primary intention is to identify a core of ritual, which can be used as a baseline against which particular funeral performances can be checked. This work also examines the variation of brahminical ritual over time through a survey of ethnographic material taken from Gazetteers and Government Ethnographic Surveys; the Purāṇas, represented by a version of the Garuḍa Purāṇa and a work known as the Garuḍa Purāṇa Sāroddāra; and Caland's summary of Vedic ritual in Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebräuche. In each of these three sections the funeral rituals have been divided into six stages and these stages have been further divided into sub-sections containing specific rituals or groups of rituals. Sections on untimely death and the role of the widow in her husband's funeral are also included. Particular emphasis is placed throughout the historical survey on the recurrent theme of ambivalence towards death as reflected both in ritual and its interpretation: the relative is loved and honoured but the corpse is frightening and quickly becomes disgusting. The survey examines the relationship between the primary emotional response to death and secondary ideological constructs, and it reveals that while ritual reflects the emotional response to death it does not always reflect secondary ideology. In addition this work includes a summary, in table form, of the variation of funeral ritual according to geographical area for all three social groups; again taken from the ethnographic material of the Gazetteers and Government Surveys.
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Smart, H. L. C. "Flexibility and conformity in Postclassic Nahua rituals." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22622/.
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The Postclassic (pre-conquest) Nahua often performed displays of religious devotion. Usually involving stripping victims of their skin, flesh and internal organs, these public, state-sanctioned rites have been understood as astonishing, even exceptional, for their brutality. As a consequence, scholars have focused on human sacrifice at the steps of the Templo Mayor; ritual away from the imperial capital Tenochtitlan has remained very poorly understood. Where attempts have been made to understand regional practices, scholars have generally assumed binary distinctions between central versus periphery or state versus local. Existing studies fail to appreciate Nahua ritual as fluid and dynamic, instead casting ceremonial behaviour across space as unrelated and fundamentally oppositional. Integrating the ethnohistorical and archaeological records, this thesis takes understandings of Nahua ritual in new directions by examining the relationship between the public arena, the sacred landscape and domestic spheres. Crucially, this thesis argues that rituals were sensitive to circumstantial pressures and personal imperatives, across hierarchies,space and time. In so doing, this study suggests a more fluid model for understanding Nahua ritual than binary distinctions can allow. A lack of appreciation for variation or agency in ritual performance has perpetuated the understanding that the Nahua were trapped in a cycle of ferocious ritualism which left little room for critical thought. Using alphabetic, pictorial and archaeological evidence for a rounded perspective, this thesis examines the intersection between official structures and personal agency to question the notion that all Nahuas unthinkingly repeated human sacrifice and other ritual bloodshed. This study argues that the household was a crucial arena for the normalisation of the blood debt which permitted the acceptance of mass public human sacrifice. This thesis finds that, within the Nahua's symbiotic worldview, activities of the temple, mountain and household rituals were mutually supporting. Moreover, it is shown that the Nahuas chose to adapt their rituals throughout the years, to suit individual preferences and environmental circumstances. Taken as a whole, my findings suggest that the Nahuas sought to control their daily existence by adapting rituals to assuage violent and impulsive supernatural forces.
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Breuer, Gereon [Verfasser]. "Microeconomic Interpretation of Religious Rituals / Gereon Breuer." Berlin : epubli, 2021. http://d-nb.info/123020492X/34.
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Khosa-Nkatini, Hundzukani Portia. "Liturgical inculturation of Tsonga widows’ mourning rituals." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75256.
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Liturgical inculturation of Tsonga widows’ mourning rituals is a dissertation prepared in the department of Practical Theology. The research studied mourning rituals and ceremonies that are practised by Tsonga widows in Ka-Mhinga village in Limpopo, Republic of South Africa. The researcher limited her study to widows within that area, and all participants were members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa (EPCSA) at the time of the interviews. The researcher being a minister in the church has observed the exclusion of widows in the church and this exclusion was not based on any doctrine of the church but on the widows’ choice to be excluded as part of respecting Tsonga traditions. The exclusion of the widow is also respected and understood by members of the church because they believe in respecting people's cultures and traditions; the majority of members of the EPCSA are Tsonga speaking.
The research starts with a brief introduction and also gives an overview of the study. The research methodology was a combination of literature review and qualitative empirical research. Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa and beliefs were investigated and how these beliefs relate to Tsonga traditional beliefs regarding ancestral worship, African religion, African hermeneutic and death and rituals in Africa. Ubuntu and mourning practices in the Tsonga culture were discussed; in Africa, a person does not exist without the other. African rituals and practices in Africa are known and respected by the whole community. A funeral does not belong to the deceased family but to the whole community.
The empirical chapter summarised both the focus group and individual interviews. The participants in this study are members of EPCSA who have experienced widowhood. These interviews allowed participants to share their experiences on mourning rituals that they had to undergo as Tsonga widows. Data were analysed by means of Python, a software that is used to analyse data for qualitative research. Python was used to analyse individual interviews and coding analysis was used to analyse focus group data. The researcher then combined both data by using thematic analysis. The following was found from the analyses; for some participants, these Tsonga mourning rituals were seen as a sign of respect and a form of protection from ancestors and the spirit of their late husband. Collected data and analyses, found the following themes from all data; Patriarchy, Exclusion/Inclusion, Graduation, Clean/Unclean, Ritual Space, church and culture. Some of the participants were very proud of having mourned for their husbands for twelve months. However, there were a few who felt mourning rituals are downgrading to women and not of any benefit for women. These participants can serve as an indication for a need for a praxis theology for EPCSA.
A praxis theory was developed to create a new inculturated praxis for EPCSA by identifying some mourning rituals elements that can be embraced without downgrading widows and others that should not be embraced because they discriminate Tsonga widows. The findings of the research confirm that there is a current liturgical moratorium on liturgical rituals of mourning for widows in the EPCSA in Tsonga culture.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Paul, Haajra. "Rituals of Mourning and Melancholia in Dubliners." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21346.
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WISE, SUSAN J. "CHILDBIRTH VOTIVES AND RITUALS IN ANCIENT GREECE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186592935.
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MacIndoe, Alistair William. "Scottish Charismatic House Churches : stories and rituals." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10619.
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This thesis is an interpretation of the ritualistic and storied behaviour of two Christian congregations of the Charismatic ‘house-church’ or ‘New Church’ genre, established within the last thirty years in Glasgow, West of Scotland. The exercise is framed by the field of research and commentary on the global rise and impact of the Neo-Pentecostal or Charismatic Movement in the latter part of the twentieth century, from which the ‘house-churches’ derive motivation and ritual, and by the growing field of Congregational Studies pioneered by James F. Hopewell (1988) in Congregation: Stories and Structures. The congregations which form the locus for the fieldwork are Bishopbriggs Charismatic Church (BCC – a pseudonym) in the northern suburbs of Glasgow and Bridgeton Charismatic Fellowship (BCF - a pseudonym), an inner-city congregation in the East End of Glasgow. PART ONE: Charismatic Renewal, Congregational Studies & Two Churches provides the background in terms of general history, methodology, and interpretation of the two congregations. Chapter One charts the history of the Charismatic Movement and the rise of the ‘house-churches’, with particular focus on its history in Scotland. Chapter Two explores the literature relating to the ethnographic axis of ritual and narrative as used in this thesis. Chapter Three explains the rationale for the ethnographic methodology practiced, and its relationship to the theological interpretative schema in which it is framed. Chapter Four is a description of the fieldwork sites and a full picture of the two congregations. Chapter Five is a primary parabolic interpretation of the two congregations. PART TWO: Rituals that Live is a series of themed essays that explore and interpret the essential habitus of the two congregations. Chapter Six argues that music acts to catalyse the Divine-human encounter, turning ‘secular’ space into ‘sacred’ space. In Chapter Seven I observe and interpret the somatic nature of the ritual field. Chapter Eight explores an imaginal process which weaves its revelatory efficacy. Chapter Nine explores the symbiotic relationship of ritual to narrative and Chapter Ten turns ethnographic observation from the central ritual matrix of Sunday morning to the missional activity of the congregations. Chapter Eleven argues for a particular missiology based on motifs and themes arising from the previous six chapters. PART THREE: Beyond the Written Word concludes the thesis by arguing that the Charismatic habitus of the house-churches indicates a surprising turn of Protestant congregations to semiotics and orality. Following Catherine Pickstock (1998) and Walter J. Ong (1969) I contend that this turn is a pursuit of presence against the distancing effects of the written and propositional dogmas of Protestant ancestry.
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Nairne, Dorothy E. "Attitudes of Tanzanian women towards marriage rituals." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1992. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3741.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Tanzanian women towards marriage rituals. Data utilized came from three sources: personal interactive observations, the responses from focus discussion sessions and conversations conducted while the researcher was in Tanzania. Findings show that wedding rituals in contemporary, urban settings are a unique combination of traditional Tanzanian culture and aspects borrowed from outside influences. The study also looks at the impact of education, urbanization, occupation, ethnic group and religion on the attitudes of women living in a changing society.
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Katsouri, Antigoni. "Performing rituals in Ancient Greek tragedy today." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17983.
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This thesis sets out to display the dynamic role fragmented rituals have in the plot of tragedy. It contends that the tragedians deployed fifth-century ancient Greek religious practices from their cultural milieu as independent objects in their plots. Whether concise or fragmented, enacted or reported, they are modified into dramaturgical tools that move the story forward by effecting chains of reactions and link the past and the present with the aim of enhancing the critical ability of the audiences. These ritual representations in performance are most often either perverted or fail for various reasons. This thesis contends that this fragmentary re-imagining of cultural practices are an essential part of the tragic texts. However, rituals by nature are complex modes of actions and it seems that they retain much of their purposes, intentions and performativity within the texts. This complexity draws the attention to their individual treatment when they go through the process of translation, the expected reconstruction of the text to fit in the time limit of a performance, the editing and the directorial decisions for their staging. This research does not call for a 'historically authentic' performance of the rituals within the plays. Indeed, the lack of evidence makes it impossible to articulate with accuracy any elements of those early performances, and it is not the purpose of this thesis. This study strives to establish an analytical basis for understanding the balance between the demands of the play-text of the tragedians and the productions of a director from the perspective of the ritual content. This analysis is a response to a gap in scholarship concerning this aspect of the performative turn in the studies of ancient Greek texts. This thesis analyses, as far as we can determine, the classical Athenian rituals that were deployed in tragedy and fills in the scholarly gap created by the performative turn with regard to the historical awareness one needs as a tool to perceive the embedded functional role of rituals in tragedy. Their defining role in the story-line is then demonstrated with the textual analysis of rituals in five tragic plays. These plays are then studied in performance terms through analysis of three productions by the Theatrical Organisation of Cyprus. The discussion analyses the extent to which the ritual fragments dramaturgical functions were preserved in the productions, and the effects of their treatment in the experience of the spectator. The textual analysis and the performance analyses both concentrating on the ritual content, reveal the way in which rituals constitute the substrata in tragedy, and as such they require special attention in both a textual analysis and for a text-based production. The concluding discussion analyses the implications of the relationship between rituals and tragedy for contemporary performances, and suggests ways in which one might stage these ritual fragments today for contemporary audiences.
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Cerball, Raquel Elizabeth Nava. "Rituals of the Re-Founded Bolivian State." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626621.
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Burden, Joel Francis. "Rituals of royalty : prescription, politics and practice in English coronation and royal funeral rituals, c. 1327 to c. 1485." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2497/.
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Roche, Gerald. "Nadun: Ritual and the Dynamics of Cultural Diversity in Northwest China's Hehuang Region." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366403.
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This thesis examines cultural variation and the processes of cultural change that form it
through a case-study of variation and invariance in the performance of Nadun, a ritual
performed in fifty-three communities in the Sanchuan region of northwest China primarily
by Mangghuer (Tu) but also Tiebie (Tibetan) and Qidai (Han Chinese) communities.
The text begins by placing the study in its regional context and situating the
research topic within the reemergence of area studies and recent discussion on Zomia and
the nature of regional formation in Asian borderlands. The introductory chapter also
provides details on Nadun (including a review of relevant literature), and background on
the theory and method employed in the study.
The second chapter of the thesis deals with the ontological foundations of Nadun –
beliefs and practices centered on an opposition between malevolent ghosts and benevolent
deities that can both manipulate human fortunes. This chapter also examines the impact of
Dge lugs pa Buddhism on these beliefs and practices.
The third chapter examines the social patterning of Nadun according to local
ideologies of age, gender, kin, and territory. Local idioms of hospitality, etiquette, and
festive atmosphere which pattern dyadic social relationships are also discussed.
Chapter Four deals with the impact of the state upon patterns of cultural diversity
and unity in China. In particular, it seeks to establish that significant elements of Nadun
represent an attempt by the Qing state to render Mangghuer populations legible,
conscriptable, and favorably disposed towards the state.
Chapter Five examines the impact of contemporary cultural trends – modernism,
globalism, and consumerism – in Sanchuan and on Nadun. This chapter in particular
examines the way in which global ideologies are co-opted by locally hegemonic ideologies.
This final chapter of this thesis generalizes the findings of the previous chapters into
three broadly applicable conclusions. It is first suggested that cultural diversity is most
accurately envisioned as noospheric diversity – diversity of ideologies or paradigms –
rather than as diversity of cultural groups, an approach which dominates contemporary
discourse on cultural diversity. It is secondly suggested that a further element of cultural
diversity is areal diversity – diversity in the number and nature of regions created by
meshworks of social processes within which ideologies circulate. The final generalizable
conclusion of this thesis is that future attention should be paid to the role of certain
individuals in generating cultural diversity by creating regional variations and combinations
of translocal ideologies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
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Leplus-Habeneck, Jean-Sébastien. "Fonction rituelle de l’hypnose dans le suivi de troubles du deuil persistant." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCH035/document.
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Les processus hypnotiques font l'objet d’études transdisciplinaires qui attestent d’un état spécifique et impliquent des dimensions relationnelles et contextuelles (Rainville, 2004 ; Bioy, 2017). Cette recherche s’effectue dans le contexte des Troubles du Deuil Persistant (T.D.P, Prigerson, 2009 ; Zech, 2006 ; Fasse, 2013). Une approche pharmacologique améliore la composante dépressive sans affecter les symptômes spécifiques du TDP, questionnant la place des interventions psychothérapeutiques (Hensley, 2006). Cette recherche exploratoire interroge le sens que peut prendre l'expérience hypnotique dans un contexte de TDP et d’en décrire une phénoménologie. La dimension rituelle du dispositif hypnotique pourrait sous-tendre les phénomènes de « guérisons immédiates » (Michaux, 2007), tâche aveugle dans la pratique de l'hypnothérapie. Il s’agit d’une recherche-action qualitative, longitudinale, utilisant l’Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 2009). Les résultats montrent que l’hypnose peut endosser une fonction de rituel thérapeutique qui se caractérise par une scansion temporelle nette, comme acte de clôture. Nous avons identifié une mythologie hypnotique relevant du « savoir commun », tributaire de l’intensité des expectatives et croyances sur l’hypnose, notamment de ses dimensions « magiques » et « thérapeutiques ». L’effet de cadre et la ritualisation séquencée de la séance sont primordiaux. Les personnes expérimentant un rituel de « guérison immédiate » étaient exemptes de comorbidités psychiatriques majeures. Les éléments centraux sont : l’alliance thérapeutique, l’absence de compétition avec d’autres systèmes de croyances, le respect de l’écologie psychique du sujet, son engagement dans un changement de relation avec le défunt et l’ouverture d’une opportunité socialement acceptable pour le produire. Cette ritualité est un acte de clôture d'un mode de relation. Les situations d'inopérance du dispositif montrent des effets de dissonance cognitive induite, entre soumission temporaire à une suggestion et résistance à un vécu d’abandon du défunt. Les dimensions de « fidélité » et de « loyauté » sont majeures dans ces phénomènes, face à un hypnothérapeute « sujet supposé pouvoir »Hypnotic processes are the subject of transdisciplinary studies that attest to a specific state and involve relational and contextual dimensions (Rainville, 2004; Bioy, 2017). This research is carried out in the context of Persistent Grief Disorders (P.G.D.., Prigerson, 2009, Zech, 2006, Fasse, 2013). A pharmacological approach improves the depressive component without affecting the specific symptoms of PGD, questioning the place of psychotherapeutic interventions (Hensley, 2006). This exploratory research questions the meaning that hypnotic experience can take in a PGD context and describes a phenomenology. The ritual dimension of the hypnotic device could underlie the phenomena of "immediate healings" (Michaux, 2007), a blind task in the practice of hypnotherapy. This is a qualitative longitudinal action research using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 2009). The results show that hypnosis can assume a therapeutic ritual function that is characterized by a clear temporal scansion, as an act of closure of a mode of relationship. We have identified a hypnotic mythology of "common knowledge",dependent on the intensity of expectations and beliefs about hypnosis, especially its "magical" and "therapeutic" dimensions. The frame effect and the sequential ritualization of the session are major. People experiencing an "immediate healing" ritual were free of major psychiatric comorbidities. The central elements are: the therapeutic alliance, the absence of competition with other belief systems, respect for the psychological ecology of the subject, his involvement in a change of relationship with the deceased and the opening of a socially acceptable opportunity to produce it. Situations of inoperability show effects of cognitive dissonance induced, between temporary submission to a suggestion and resistance to a lived experience of abandonment of the deceased. The dimensions of "fidelity" and "loyalty" are major in these phenomena
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Barnes, Carol-Ann. "Myths and Rituals: Unionist governance in the 1950s." Thesis, Ulster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492215.
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In commemorative practices there are a number of fundamental concerns: for memory itself - how is the past remembered and constructed,. what narrative is told and how accurate is it?; power - which events are remembered, whose history do they narrate and at what level?; the public I private distinction - to what degree do public narratives reflect private lived experiences?; continuity and change what is authentic and what is invented?; and the social setting - to what extent does commemoration reinforce or create identities, generate social cohesion within a group or exclude those who do not identify with the events commemorated? The study considers two government-sponsored commemorations; the Festival of Britain, 1951 and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953. The events are analysed within Paul Connerton's framework of myths and rituals: the Festival as narrating a myth and the Coronation as performing a ritual. Connerton's theory would suggest that although the authoritative tone of the Festival story appeared a more obvious exertion of power, its malleable, mythic character meant that it need not have been entirely believed and therefore, was as likely to be ignored as to be disputed. By contrast, the invariance encoded in the ritual of the Coronation ceremony operated at a more subliminal level. It is proposed that because this nonnegotiable aspect of ritual incorporated constitutional and religious characteristics, it operated more persuasively as a manifestation of power and authority and hence, was more forcefully challenged, particularly by those who considered themselves marginal to the existing social and constitutional order. Since a great deal of the 'Troubles literature' is premised on prevIous but somewhat limited considerations ofthis period as a time of political stagnation and wasted opportunity, it requires contemporary reassessment. Connerton's thesis provides an alternative and insightful perspective on this under researched period in Northern Ireland's history.
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Ulmer, Judith S. "Geschichte des Georg-Büchner-Preises Soziologie eines Rituals." Berlin New York de Gruyter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2848239&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Fux, Michal. "Cultural rituals as by-products of precaution system." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579721.
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In my current evolutionary anthropological research I have collected data about cultural rituals that might support the theory concerning the role of precautionary mechanisms in transmitting and shaping religious/cultural rituals. The research was conducted in South Africa, and more specifically with the amaZulu people in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, many of whom are still relying on oral transmission of their practices and are also living in a conflict area. The data collection employed two methods. First, a questionnaire regarding people's inferences about the outcome of failing to perform each of the life-stage rituals, which are at the center of the Zulu life cycle. Second, a method borrowed from economics and social psychology called 'Budget-Allocation', which elicits subjects' implicit judgements about the salience of potential threat domains. These two sets of collected data were specifically chosen because they could be integrated for the purpose of testing whether a correlation between salient potential-threat domains and inferences about the effect of performance of the religious rituals. This study has established that precautionary themes are strongly prevalent (over 90% in average) in Zulu rituals and that there is a correlation between the extent to which people were preoccupied with the different potential-threat domains and the extent to which those domains were mentioned in regard to their religious rituals. These results support previous theoretical work on the relationship between precautionary cognitive mechanisms and religious rituals and provides a springboard for future studies meant to attain an understanding of the connection between precaution systems and cultural rituals as well as the types of mechanisms complicit (aside from memory etc) in the cultural transmission of these forms across generations.
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Foster, Winnie Gipsy. "Conceptualising Wairuatanga: Rituals, Relevance and Realities for teachers." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4290.
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This research project was based on the complexities and conceptualising forms of
wairuatanga and their implications for teaching and learning in New Zealand mainstream
schools. As a relatively new study for research the project explored wairuatanga through the life
and work experiences of three Māori teachers from education centres around New Zealand.
Wairuatanga permeated through the life and teaching of the participants who all expressed their
own sense of wairuatanga in different ways. The cognisance of mātauranga Māori, tikanga
Māori and insights into te ao Māori were identified and explored thus taking into account the
various ways in which the three participants extended the parameters of existing knowledge of
wairuatanga and how they promoted and created a climate within their own teaching context that
fostered the natural inclusion of wairuatanga. The findings will assist current teachers and
others to develop an understanding and appreciation of the different forms of wairuatanga that
may assist them to apply this value to their own classroom practice. It is hoped that the findings
will also help to inform teaching practices with respect to teaching and learning not only for
Māori children but for all children in New Zealand mainstream schools.
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Fergiani, Asya. "Ebbing Winds: Life Rituals at Home and Abroad." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1540.
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The intent of this thesis was to write a memoir of my five month trip to Libya that explores cultural differences through my experiences as an American with Western ideals. This memoir is focused on the cultural norms of marriage in the rural town of Msalata, in the central rural farming belt north of the ever expanding Sahara Desert of North Africa. My goal was to produce a work that is informational while showing the humanity of the local people through my perceptions as an outsider with different expectations. It was a time of discovery for me about the value of my upbringing and the positive aspects of American and Libyan culture. Our five months in Libya proved our strength and weakness. Libya was not what I expected. The people were hospitable beyond my experience. The customs at times were primitive and required an open mind. My children and I were the token Americans that summer who were invited to every wedding and birth. I was expected to attend many social events from circumcision celebrations to giving condolences along the side of my brother-in-law’s wife. Due to my American Christian upbringing I shared the moral values of Islam, which made it easy for me to become Muslim and live an Islamic life. At the same time, I could not fully accept all aspects of Libyan culture nor did my husband. Hadi rejected many things about his culture because it conflicted with Islam. My thesis did not come out the way I expected. It took a different direction from what I had original planned. It became focused on wedding traditions rather than on broader cultural contrasts.B.A.
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Spiro, Alison Mary. "Moral continuity : Gujarati kinship, women, children and rituals." Thesis, Brunel University, 2003. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5521.
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This thesis is a study of Gujarati women and children living in the North London Borough of Harrow. It addresses the issues concerning women in the household, that include their relations with other kin and wider networks, caring for children, feeding, and protecting them from evil influences, and their key involvement in ritual practice. Men as husbands, fathers, uncles and grandfathers are also discussed. Children's involvement in ritual from birth, or even before, is addressed and the way they make sense of the world through multiple carers. Households were studied using the methods of participant observation and in-depth, taped, unstructured interviews. Different caste groups, religions and social classes were included in the study group, but the majority were Hindu, and a few Jain. Muslim households were excluded because they represented less than 10% of the Harrow population and would have made the study too broad. Data obtained from a three-month period of research in Ahmedabad, informed the Harrow data, but a direct comparison was not made. The theme of moral continuity emerged from the data as a central concern for Hindu and Jain households. This was linked to kinship ties, respect for elders, obligations, religious festivals and rituals. The joint household remains popular and many younger people are learning Gujarati, practising rituals and asking for arranged `introduction' marriages. Family `rules' which have been followed through many generations are followed in respect to festivals, life-cycle rituals of childhood, warding off the evil eye and what foods to eat. Childhood is a time of purity when children are thought to be close to the gods, requires special consideration, especially when it comes to food, and milk may be thought to be the safest option. Children live in a network of interdependency with other kin and through rituals participate in a world that respects the hierarchy of the household and wider Gujarati `community'. Western influences of toys, peers and the educational system are acknowledged at various points. In conclusion, a sense of being Gujarati is still held by individuals today in Britain. Continuity of moral codes is achieved through ritual practice, which is transformed over time, links with the ancestors and gives a sense of belonging to 'one of us'.
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Kanekar, Aarati K. (Aarati Kumar). "Celebration of place : processional rituals and urban form." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36922.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-108).
The celebration of processional rituals of festivity is a significant, dynamic, social and temporal dimension of the static form of the built environment. This study endeavors to understand the means by which meaning was added to the form, space and character of the built environment by these processional rituals. Processional rituals influence and are influenced by various aspects of the spatial framework. This study analyzes those spatial aspects that play a significant role in the relationship between processional rituals and urban form in general and then examines how these analytical principles work in the three specific case studies examined in the Indian subcontinent. The first case, that of the South Indian temple cities, focuses on the religious processional rituals; the second, Delhi is important for consideration of political and ceremonial processions; and the third case, Bhaktapur has both the religious as well as the political dimension working together. This thesis shows that processions do have a tremendous impact on urban form and spaces - some of which lose meaning and character without the rituals they were meant to house. Even when the original processional ritual is changes, urban spaces have a determining role in the creation of new rituals.
by Aarati K. Kanekar.
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Klodt, Lindsay M. "Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207872854.
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Bresnahan, Krystal M. "From Portraits to Selfies: Family Photo-making Rituals." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6472.
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From family-style portraits to selfies, who is photographer and/or photographed varies as families engage, stage, and interpret the visual. How families participate in photo-making changes how individual family members feel about and relate to not only their photographs, but also each other. In this dissertation, I examine photographs as visual and material objects, and include the communication processes and ritual practices of producing, consuming, curating, viewing, and circulating these photos. By framing family photo-making as ritual, I explore how families do photo-making in everyday life, and identify the patterns of choice embedded in the genre of family photography, which symbolically and socially construct family.
My methodological approach moves from analyzing images to the lives of photos and spaces in which photos are represented and shared, observing visible practices and the traces – photographs and photo displays – they produce. I ask questions about communicative acts of performing rituals and negotiating family memory in the public space of the Easter Bunny Photo Hut, the personal and domestic space of a mother’s home, and the digital space of the social media app Snapchat. Each site provides a unique access point to study family photo-making ethnographically. Combining my ethnographic observations with photo elicitation interviews, I study the symbolic value of photographs negotiated by and between family members.