Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Religions (an Open Access Journal)
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| Other authors / contributors: | Nugteren, Albertina, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9783038977537
3038977535
9783038977520
3038977527
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| Notes: | "This is a reprint of articles from the special issue published online in the open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) from 2018 to 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (MDPI WWW site, viewed June 2, 2020).
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| Summary: | This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god's footprint in the archaic place of pilgrimage, Gaya (India); a recovered manual of rituals (from Xiapu county) for Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, juxtaposed to a Manichaean painting from southern China; sacred stories and related sacred stones in the Alor-Pantar archipelago, Indonesia; lotus symbolism, indicating immortalizing plants in the mythic traditions of Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia; lavishly illustrated variations of portrayals of Ravana, a Sinhalese god-king-demon; figurines made of cow dung sculptured by rural women in Rajasthan (India); and mythical artifacts called 'Apples of Eden' in a well-known interactive game series.
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| Other form: | Print version: Religion, ritual and ritualistic objects Basel ; Beijing ; Wuhan ; Barcelona ; Belgrade : MDPI, April 2019 9783038977520 (pbk)
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| Standard no.: | 9783038977520
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