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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
An accessible and engaging treatment of the experience of Jewish
summer camps. This book tells the story of how Jewish camps have
emerged as creators of positive spiritual experiences for Jewish
youth in North America. When Jewish camps began at the dawn of the
twentieth century, their leaders had little interest in creating
Jewish spiritual experiences for their campers. Yet over the course
of the past century, Jewish camps have gradually moved into
providing primal Jewish experiences that diverse campers can enjoy,
parents appreciate, and alumni fondly recall. Making Shabbat Real
explores how Shabbat at camp became the focal point for these
primal Jewish experiences, providing an interesting perspective on
changing approaches to Jewish education and identity in North
America.
This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, and its inextricable interdependence with language. It is also a detailed study of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions that we take to be religious and therefore central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from a range of disciplines.
This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, and its inextricable interdependence with language. It is also a detailed study of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions that we take to be religious and therefore central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from a range of disciplines.
In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho
legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the
tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation
toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the
supernatural, as well as how the Navaho achieve a harmony within
their world through symbolic ceremonial practice.
Originally published in 1990.
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Statues, paintings, and masks-like the bodies of shamans and spirit
mediums-give material form and presence to otherwise invisible
entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be
enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how
magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit
mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam,
Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things
are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes
transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial
conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of
the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in
any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian
Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control
and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a
liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter
of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the
preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj
be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of
Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked
officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and
interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it
also generated new thinking within the government about the utility
of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
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