Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Indigenous, Folk & Tribal

As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yoruba god of drumming, known as Ayan in Africa and Ana in Cuba, is variously described as the orisha of drumming, the spirit of the wood, or the more obscure Yoruba praise name AsoroIgi (Wood That Talks). With the growing global importance of orisha religion and music, the consequence of this deity's power for devotees continually reveals itself in new constellations of meaning as a sacred drum of Nigeria and Cuba finds new diasporas.

Despite the growing volume...

The Mi'kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi'kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi'kmaw Catholicism is perhaps best exemplified by the community's regard for the figure of Saint Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. Every year for a week, coinciding with the saint's feast day of July 26, Mi'kmaw peoples from communities throughout Quebec and eastern Canada gather on the small island of Potlotek, off...

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property...

--Richard Wagamese, Embers

In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections,...

Les etudes reunies dans ce volume examinent les possibilites et les modalites de transmission du sacre, des lors qu'il n'est plus considere comme objet exclusif du discours religieux et qu'il apparait lie a la creation litteraire. Il s'agit de voir comment les ecrivains en renouvellent le sens selon les periodes et les traditions. L'approche envisagee n'est pas seulement litteraire, mais aussi philosophique, sociologique et theologique.

Das Buch bietet eine systematische Darstellung des Patroziniums, naherhin des Kirchenpatroziniums sowie des titulus ecclesiae gema c. 1218 CIC/83. Das Patrozinium stellt im Leben und Frommigkeit der katholischen Kirche eine Realitat dar, die nur selten hinterfragt wird. Kirchenwidmungen und Kirchendedikationen gehoren jedoch zu den wichtigsten Feiern fur das Leben einer Ortskirche und viele kirchenrechtliche Detailfragen schlieen sich an Bau, Widmung und Weihe einer Kirche an. Der Autor analysiert speziell die rechtshistorische Evolution sowie die geltende universalkirchenrechtliche...