Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern

Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 477
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ISBN-10 : 9781527532717
ISBN-13 : 1527532712
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Synopsis Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern by : Evy Johanne Håland

By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, or the relationship between ideology and mentality. It shows that the communicative aspect of the religious festival is central, and allows the reader to get to know other sides of Greece than the picture that today dominates the news resulting from the economic crisis with which the county has struggled for several years.

Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece

Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 658
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ISBN-10 : 9781527593183
ISBN-13 : 1527593185
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece by : Evy Johanne Håland

This book investigates religious rituals and gender in modern and ancient Greece, with a specific focus on women’s role in connection with healing. How can we come to understand such mainstays of ancient culture as its healing rituals, when the male recorders did not, and could not, know or say much about what occurred, since the rituals were carried out by women? The book proposes that one way of tackling this dilemma is to attend similar healing rituals in modern Greece, carried out by women, and compare the information with ancient sources, thus providing new ways of interpreting the ancient material we possess. Carrying out fieldwork—being present during, often, enduring rituals within cultures, despite other changes—teaches one whole new ways of looking at written and pictorial records of such events. By bringing ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination, this text also has relevance beyond the Greek context both in time and space.

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9781443896177
ISBN-13 : 1443896179
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Synopsis Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient by : Evy Johanne Håland

This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology. Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres. In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the “great” and “little” societies, in the form of official and popular religion. As such, it will serve to broaden the reader’s knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.

The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture

The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0521815665
ISBN-13 : 9780521815666
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture by : Carol Dougherty

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Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space

Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9783111062624
ISBN-13 : 3111062627
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Synopsis Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space by : Aaron French

This volume focuses on the connection between modern design and architectural practices and the construction of "sacred spaces." Not only language and ritual but space, place, and architecture play a significant role in constructing "special" or "religious" spaces. However, this concept of a constructed "sacred space" remains undertheorized in religious studies and the history of art and architecture in general. This volume therefore revisits the question of a "modern sacred space" from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on religion, space, and architecture during the emergence of the modern period and up until contemporary times. Revisiting the ways in which modern architects and artists have endeavored to create sacred spaces and buildings for the modern world will addresses the underlying questions of how religious ideas--especially those related to esotericism and to alternative religiosities--have transformed the way sacred spaces are conceptualized today.

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient

Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 551
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ISBN-10 : 9781443896115
ISBN-13 : 144389611X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient by : Evy Johanne Håland

This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology. Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres. In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the “great” and “little” societies, in the form of official and popular religion. As such, it will serve to broaden the reader’s knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.

Sacred Waters

Sacred Waters
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 9781000025088
ISBN-13 : 100002508X
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Sacred Waters by : Celeste Ray

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water’s sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human–environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.

Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece

Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 690
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ISBN-10 : 9781443868594
ISBN-13 : 1443868590
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece by : Evy Johanne Håland

*Winner of the AFS Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize 2016* Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, therefore, combines ethnography with historical sources to examine the relationship between modern Greek death rituals and ancient written and visual sources on the subject of death and gender. The central theme of this work is women’s role in connection with the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with the author’s fieldwork and anthropological analysis of today’s Mediterranean societies. Since death rituals have a focal and lasting importance, and reflect the gender relations within a society, the institutions surrounding death may function as a critical vantage point from which to view society. The comparison is based on certain religious festivals that are dedicated to deceased persons and on other death rituals. Using laments, burials and the ensuing memorial rituals, the relationship between the cult dedicated to deceased mediators in both ancient and modern society is analysed. The research shows how the official ideological rituals are influenced by the domestic rituals people perform for their own dead, and vice versa, that the modern domestic rituals simultaneously reflect the public performances. As this cult has many parallels with the ancient official cult, the following questions are central: Can an analysis of modern public and domestic rituals in combination with ancient sources tell the reader more about the ancient death cult as a whole? What does such an analysis suggest about the relationship between the domestic death cult and the official? Since the practical performance of the domestic rituals was – and still remains – in the hands of women, it is crucial to discover the extent of their influence to elucidate the real power relations between women and men. This research represents a new contribution to earlier presentations of the Greek “reality”, but mainly from the female perspective, which is highly significant since men produced most of the ancient sources. This means that the principal objective for this endeavour is to question the ways in which history has been written through the ages, to supplement the male with a female perspective, perhaps complementing an Olympian Zeus with a Chthonic Mother Earth. The research brings both ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination; its relevance therefore transcends the Greek context both in time and space.

Integrated Intelligence

Integrated Intelligence
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9789087905101
ISBN-13 : 9087905106
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Integrated Intelligence by : Marcus Anthony

Marcus Anthony examines theories of intelligence and consciousness, and the way in which they represent (or exclude) intuitive, spiritual and mystical experience. His argument identifies the way narrowly defined "rational" definitions of mind have come to dominate and restrict contemporary discourses in science and education. He develops the theory of integrated intelligence, an expanded model which incorporates the non-rational elements of human intelligence long missing in mainstream western discourses. Anthony indicates how and why they should be incorporated into modern education systems.

Jesus and Other Men

Jesus and Other Men
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9789004361096
ISBN-13 : 900436109X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Jesus and Other Men by : Susanna Asikainen

In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels.