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Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects
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This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god’s footprint in the archaic place of pilgrimage, Gaya (India); a recovered manual of rituals (from Xiapu county) for Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, juxtaposed to a Manichaean painting from southern China; sacred stories and related sacred stones in the Alor–Pantar archipelago, Indonesia; lotus symbolism, indicating immortalizing plants in the mythic traditions of Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia;
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Keywords
- Abui
- Alor
- Alor-Pantar Archipelago
- ankh
- Assassination
- Bible
- Buddhist worship and repentance ritual
- Children
- colonial period
- continuing bonds
- cow dung
- death ritual
- Diagram of the Universe
- digital games
- Dogon
- embodiment
- ethnography
- funeral
- funerary photography
- gender
- Govardhan puja
- Healing
- Hinduism
- human-nonhuman sociality
- imaginative embodiment
- India
- initiation
- Kingship
- Lamòling
- libation ritual
- Manichaeism
- mask
- Material culture
- multiple readings of images
- Nature
- Nilotic lotus
- nizarism
- objects
- oral legends and myths
- Performance
- place of pilgrimage
- procession
- Ravana
- religious transfer of meaning
- Ritual
- ritual art
- ritual creativity
- ritual manual
- Ritualism
- rituality
- ritualizing
- sacral tree
- sacred geography
- sema-taui
- Sinhalese Buddhist Majority
- South America
- Sri Lanka
- symbol
- symbolic anthropology
- Templar Order
- traditional religions
- Vi??u’s footprint
- Xiapu manuscripts
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03897-753-7Editions
