Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Indigenous, Folk & Tribal

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...

This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion. The introduction sets the stage by discussing the profound disquietude in the wake of Britain's Religious Census of 1851, along with the various responses to a perceived decline in religiosity. Two subsequent chapters deal with the resurgence of iconographic religion from the perspective of theology proper, arguing...

Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms

Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in the Viking Age. To the Gods, poetry is a precious mead -- brewed from honey and the blood of wisdom -- which was brought to Asgard by Oinn himself. Isn't it only fitting that you offer them some of that mead in your rites?

Inside, you will find poetry for hallowing ritual space, telling stories from the mythology, inviting the...

Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms

Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in the Viking Age. To the Gods, poetry is a precious mead -- brewed from honey and the blood of wisdom -- which was brought to Asgard by Oinn himself. Isn't it only fitting that you offer them some of that mead in your rites?

Inside, you will find poetry for hallowing ritual space, telling stories from the mythology, inviting the...