Ritual, Performance and the Senses
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Ritual, Performance and the Senses

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Ritual, Performance and the Senses

About this book

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants. Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shrine of the Lord of the Shiny Snow in Andean Peru.Understanding ritual allows us to understand processes at the very centre of human social life and humanity itself, making this an invaluable text for students and scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, performance studies and religious studies.

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Yes, you can access Ritual, Performance and the Senses by Michael Bull, Jon P. Mitchell, Michael Bull,Jon P. Mitchell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Performance Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781350001510
eBook ISBN
9781000189599
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Performance Art
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Ontology, Mimesis, and Divine Intervention: Understanding Catholic Visionaries
  11. 2 Ritual Action Shapes Our Brains: An Essay in Neuroanthropology
  12. 3 The Importance of Repetition: Ritual as a Support to Mind
  13. 4 Place-making in the "Holy of Holies": The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem
  14. 5 The Spaces and Places of Ramnagar Ramlila
  15. 6 "Inner Movement" between Practices of Meditation, Martial Arts, and Acting: A Focused Examination of Affect, Feeling, Sensing, and Sensory Attunement
  16. 7 Exploring the Andean Sensory Model: Knowledge, Memory, and the Experience of Pilgrimage
  17. 8 Sensation and Transmission
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index