Myth, Ritual, and Kingship
Author | : Samuel Henry Hooke |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Samuel Henry Hooke |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Samuel Henry Hooke |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
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Author | : Samuel Henry Hooke |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Wilfred G. Lambert |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Benjamin C. Ray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
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Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing contexts of the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence eras. Interpreting the Kabakaship as the symbolic center of the precolonial kingdom, this book examines James G. Frazer's theory of divine kingship, Buganda's creation myth, traditions about the origins of the kingship, regicide, royal ancestor shrines, and theories about the connection between Buganda and Ancient Egypt.
Author | : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520019249 |
Author | : Catherine Bell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199739471 |
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author | : Robert de Langhe |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic |
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Author | : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Myth |
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Author | : Nawaraj Chaulagain |
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Release | : 2013 |
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This dissertation examines two major kingship rituals-- the coronation and the autumnal navaratri--as discussed in Hindu religious literature and ritual texts, and as practised in Nepal. These rituals are based on sacred myths and primarily oriented to the production of religious and socio-political dimensions of sovereign power. The Vedic, tantric, and other devotional acts as found in these rituals empower the king and construct his personal and corporate identity. The rituals are consequently strongly political, as various divine, human and other agencies invest the king with multiple powers and authorize him to rule; these agencies also negotiate their own relations, domains of influence, and hierarchies. These rituals produce a sacred and divine king and kingship, as well as sacred space, by establishing the king's connection (bandhu) and identification with many sources of power. As myth and ritual are used in the service of power and authority, they jointly promote each other to create, perpetuate, and strengthen these attributes. Since the uses of myth and ritual are strategic and ideological, they can be used to legitimize the status of the king and enforce the use of power on others. As illustrated in the recent history of Nepal, the myth and ritual can also be sites for dialogue, negotiation, resistance, subversion, and replacement of the same power. Religion and politics are deeply intertwined in these ritual activities; in fact, only in the deeply religious and devotional settings can the rituals exert maximum socio-political powers.