Ritual for Local Groves

Ritual for Local Groves
Author: Supreme Forest Woodman Circle (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 93
Release: 1906
Genre: Secret societies
ISBN:

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Ritual for Local Groves Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle

Ritual for Local Groves Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Author: Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258909390

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This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Ritual for Local Groves Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle

Ritual for Local Groves Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Author: Forest Wo Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781436696326

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Ritual for Local Groves

Ritual for Local Groves
Author: Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1917
Genre: Secret societies
ISBN:

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Explanation and description of roles played in rituals performed by the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle, along with music that was performed and positioning of members during said rituals.

Making Place through Ritual

Making Place through Ritual
Author: Lea Schulte-Droesch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110540851

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Indian indigenous societies are especially known for their elaborate rituals, which offer an excellent chance for studying religion as practice. However, few detailed ethnographic works exist on the ritual practices of these societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jharkhand, India this book offers insights into contemporary, previously not described rituals of the Santal, one of the largest indigenous societies of Central India. Its focus lies on culturally specific notions of place as articulated and created during these rituals. In three chapters the book discusses how the Santal "make place" on different local, regional and global levels through their rituals: They reaffirm their ancestral roots in their land during large sacrificial rituals. They offer sacrifices to the dangerous deities of the forest in exchange for rain. And they claim their region to be a "Santal region" through large festivals celebrated in sacred groves, which they link to national and global discourses of indigeneity and environmentalism. Through an analysis of the rituals of a specific society, this book addresses broader issues. It presents an example of how to study religion as a practical activity. It portrays culture-specific perceptions of the environment. And last, the book underlines the potential that lies in choosing place as a lens to study social phenomena in context.

Hidden rituals and public performances

Hidden rituals and public performances
Author: Anna-Leena Siikala
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9522228125

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Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term fieldwork undertaken during the 1990s and 2000s in three different places, the Northern Ob region in North West Siberia and in the Komi and Udmurt Republics. It sheds light on how different traditions are favoured and transformed in multicultural Russia today. Siikala and Ulyashev examine rituals, songs, and festivals that emphasize specificity and create feelings of belonging between members of families, kin groups, villages, ethnic groups, and nations, and interpret them from a perspective of area, state, and cultural policies. A closer look at post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts shows that opportunities to perform ethnic culture vary significantly among Russian minorities with different histories and administrative organisation. Within this variation the dialogue between local and administrative needs is decisive.

Medicine Grove

Medicine Grove
Author: Loren Cruden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1997-05-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1620550377

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Medicine Grove is a comprehensive herbal, with listings for every common herb and many wild plants of North America. It includes descriptions of the part of the plant used, notes on preparation, lists of symptoms alleviated by the herb, and common effects. But Medicine Grove goes further, with chapters on gathering and growing wild herbs, using herbs in shamanic ceremonies or as plant allies in the wilderness, and birth, death, and dreaming herbs. Cruden combines her own first-hand experiences with a profound knowledge of indigenous traditions, enabling the reader to bring herbal lore into his or her own practice. She explains which herbs are best for seasonal ceremonies, smudging, and making offerings, and tells how to purify a sacred space. She covers topics such as vision quests, consciousness-altering, and the special connections between certain herbs and totem animals. Medicine Grove brings the concept of an herbal into sacred territory, offering guidelines for incorporating herbs into one's spiritual life, based on the author's lifetime of work with Native American practices.

Tibetan Ritual

Tibetan Ritual
Author: Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-12-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199889392

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Ritual is one of the most pervasive religious phenomena in the Tibetan cultural world. Despite its ubiquity and importance to Tibetan cultural life, however, only in recent years has Tibetan ritual been given the attention it deserves. This is the first scholarly collection to focus on this important subject. Unique in its historical, geographical and disciplinary breadth, this book brings together eleven essays by an international cast of scholars working on ritual texts, institutions and practices in the greater Tibetan cultural world - Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. While most of the chapters focus on Buddhism, two deal with ritual in Tibet's indigenous Bon religion. All of the essays are original to this volume. An extensive introduction by the editor provides a broad overview of Tibetan ritual and contextualizes the chapters within the field of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. The book should find use in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on Tibetan religion. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of ritual generally.