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proscribed, bodily/tangible, repetition, pedagogical.
It defines sacred space and time. |
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| most people learn religion by doing it and as long as they do it they are committed to it. the proverbial person on the street may not know much about the doctrine, history, or theological controversies of their religion, but they know its rite, holy days, festivals, pilgrimage sites, and rituals. |
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| Babylonian festival that occurred during the first twelve days of the month of Nisan. Seasonal ritual intended to secure the continuance of seasonal cycle and well-being of the community |
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| "seasonal pattern" based on synthesis of diverse cultures' rituals--1. mortification, 2. purgation, 3. invigoration, 4. jubilation. |
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| Jonathan Z. Smith's theory on Akitu |
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| taken in histrical context. foreign king sat on throne. the ritual tried to make sense of foreign rule and send a political message. |
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| Her alone they sing over is one of the seven main rites of the Ogala Sioux. It is a ritual intended to prepare young girls for womanhood. |
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| what is most sacred and designates the totality of spirit beings. |
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| transitional stage during a rite of passage |
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| a stripping of structure during a journey of transition |
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1. Technological rituals
2. Therapeutic and antitherapeutic rituals
3. Ideological rituals
4. Salvation rituals
5. Revitalization rituals |
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| seek to produce or prevent a change of state in nature so that humans benefit in some way. (rain dance, fertility rites, rituals insuring a good harvest) |
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| Therapeutic and antitherapeutic rituals |
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| seek to prduce a change in the state of human health, either to heal the sick or bring sickness to the healthy (prayers for health, herbs, voodoo) |
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| seek social control by changing the mood, behavior, sentiments, motivations, and values of people. (rites of passage, teaching, "rituals of rebellion" such as mardi gras, preaching) |
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| seek to change a person's identitiy form a spiritually corrupt state to a spiritually saved state. (baptism, communion, meditation, spirit possession) |
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| seek to revitalize a culture/religion seen as dying. They try to do for the community as a whole what salvation rituals do for the individual. (early mormon attempts to revitalize christianity, unification church) |
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| explanations of sacrifice |
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1. exchanges and thanksgiving
2. substitutions
3. ways to channel and disguise violence
4. reenactments of primal events
5. communication between humans and superhumans |
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| Theodore Gaster's interpretation of ritual |
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| myth is the idealization of ritual. it is an idealized and itmeless model that can be told and retold even when the rites are not being performed |
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| jewish ritual meal held during passover. combination of pastoral festival (characterized by sacrifice of newborn lamb). came to commemorate exodus from egypt. Second holiday is 7-day agricultural festival of matzah. |
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| every ritual creates a holy place where the ritual happens and a holy time when the mundane concerns of daily routines are set aside in order to enter a special time of power. |
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| axis of the world, connects heaven ,earth, and the underworld. a place where a road to the divine can be found. |
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| australian aborigines. time of beginings when great power was present on earth. this great power not only created sacred places, but also sacred ceremonies and rituals that, when celebrated today, return the aborigines to this time of power. |
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| movements opposed to the use of images in worship |
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| the drive to make the material sacred |
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| drive to distance the divine from the material in order to avoid idolatry |
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| believe they are commissioned by the divine to convince others of revelations given to them |
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| help others have spiritual experiences |
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| you all have to believe the same thing |
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| what you physically have to do |
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