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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Book by David Cressy; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Birth Customs--England--History, Church Of England--Liturgy--History, Death--Social Aspects--England--History, England--Social Life And Customs--16th Century, England--Social Life And Customs--17th Century, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--England--History, Marriage Customs And Rites--England--History, Rites And Ceremonies--England--History--16th Century, Rites And Ceremonies--England--History--17th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

BIRTH, MARRIAGE, AND DEATH Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England David Cressy OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

Book by Catherine Bell; Oxford University Press, 1997

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Religion, Ritual

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...But the commitment to using ritual as a major tool of socialization...more affective dimensions of ritual activity. The local officials...people were looking to these rituals for some form of emotional...command over them that the 1920s birth ritual had to be changed or no one...
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The Politics and Experience of Ritual Abuse: Beyond Disbelief

Book by Sara Scott; Open University Press, 2001

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Adult Child Sexual Abuse Victims--Great Britain--Interviews, Child Sexual Abuse--Great Britain, Ritual Abuse Victims--Great Britain--Interviews, Ritual Abuse--Great Britain

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...death meaningful Survivors of ritual abuse recall being routinely...understanding the experience of ritual abuse, and form a central feature...by a forced abortion, or the birth and subsequent ritual killing...of a late-term baby, whose birth seemed to have represented a...
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Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett

Book by Katherine H. Burkman; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987

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Beckett, Samuel--1906-1989--Dramatic Works, Myth In Literature, Ritual In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...seems, still resonates with the ritual and mythic overtones of the...time and her use of habit-ritual as a way of coping. For Fehsen...another pattern. For Winnie, ritual becomes a deliberate game in...they confront ritual moments of birth and death, enacting ritual...
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Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs

Book by Ismene Lada-Richards; Clarendon Press, 1999

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Aristophanes--Frogs, Dionysus (Greek Deity) In Literature, Greece--Religion, Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Initiations In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--Greece, Rites And Ceremonies In Literature, Ritual In Literature, Theater--Religious Aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sequence, since the function of a ritual passage is to place the neophyte...initiation as a celebration of birth. 223 In a wider ritual frame, the...vectus elementa remeavi" 11. 23 ; birth: "Exhinc festissimum celebravi...

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Journal Articles on: birth ritual

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Hospital Birth Routines as Rituals: Society's Messages to American Women

Journal article by Robbie Davis-Floyd Phd.; Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology Journal, Vol. 1, 1987

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...in the face of births mysteries. In...the unknowns of birth every day, utilize their ritual procedures in this...performance of the rituals themselves had...changes in our birth rituals. At this moment...cultural arena of birth that some of the...more "natural births." In this context...model through their births to adopting and...choose the type of birth rituals most likely to...
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The (Re)birth of Mona Changowitz: Rituals and Ceremonies of Cultural Conversion and Self-Making in Mona in the Promised Land

Journal article by Begona Simal Gonzalez; MELUS, Vol. 26, 2001

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Asian Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Emigration and immigration--History, Jen, Gish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jews--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Mona in the Promised Land (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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The (re)birth of Mona Changowitz: rituals and ceremonies of cultural...in the trope of the ritual/ceremony. Taking...ceremony to that of ritual, or vice versa, in...distinguishes between ritual in which the false lessons...belong to the realm of rituals, where lived, living...
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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Journal article by Roy Porter; Medical History, Vol. 42, 1998

Collections: History, Entire Library

Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life...Birth, marriage, and death: ritual, religion, and the life...fall of merry England. the ritual year, 1400-1700 (1994...charting as it does the social rituals which governed mortal life...
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Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Journal article by S.J. Gunn; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999

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Books--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle...life, love and death and the rituals with which they marked them...submissive adherence to the churchs ritual prescriptions. Meanwhile he...who found some traditional rituals too casual about the churchs...
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Name Rituals and Acts of Feeling among the Kayapo (Mebengokre)

Journal article by William H. Fisher; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 9, 2003

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Anthropological research, Rites and ceremonies, Ritual, South American native peoples--Attitudes, South American native peoples--Rites and ceremonies

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...are life crisis rituals. Inherited from...ceremonies marking birth, birth of a first...the liturgy of ritual. The only illocutionary...months preceding the ritual climax that is...used during name rituals also indicates...extended since the birth of the child...evidenced during ritual is irreversib le. Birth order, kin group...differentiation during name rituals from which birth...

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Magazine Articles on: birth ritual

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The Living Earth Ethical Principles; Right Diet and Renewing Life Rituals

Magazine article by Erik Assadourian; World Watch, Vol. 21, November 2008

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Diet--Environmental aspects, Diet--Ethical aspects, Diet--Health aspects, Ethics, Rites and ceremonies--Economic aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Ethical aspects, Ritual--Economic aspects, Ritual--Ethical aspects, Rituals--Economic aspects, Rituals--Ethical aspects

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...stage of life to another; birth, initiation into adulthood...a common theme joins these rituals, regardless of setting, religion...invitations and gift wrapping. But rituals can be reclaimed so that they...rooms or flights). Other rituals can be redesigned as well...family. More than any other ritual, perhaps, funerals have great...
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Passing the Crown: In May It's Time for the Quirky Changing of the Guard Ritual at the St. Petersburg Times

Magazine article by Natalie Pompilio; American Journalism Review, Vol. 28, April 2004

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Newspapers--Analysis, Newspapers--Appointments, resignations and dismissals

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...Passing the Crown: In May Its Time for the Quirky Changing of the Guard Ritual at the St. Petersburg Times. by Natalie Pompilio In London, Prince Charles has known since birth that he will one day inherit the throne. In Monaco, Prince Albert is...
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Ritual in Business: Building a Corporate Culture through Symbolic Management

Magazine article by Christian Lange; Industrial Management, Vol. 33, July 1991

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Characteristics, Corporate culture, Organizational behavior, Surveys, Tennessee, United States, Values

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...significance and usefulness of ritual in todays business world...The earliest evidence of ritual behavior comes from Northern...stages from a different view, birth, puberty, marriage, and...transitions)." Seven Business Rituals Since the scope of this study...applications, the kinds of ritual researched was confined to...
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Scholars and the Goddess: Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk

Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001

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Goddesses, Religions, Witchcraft

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are...introduction to Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk (nee Miriam...sometimes showing her giving birth to the "Divine Child--her...influenced by such things as Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth-century...trumpeted, borrowing from rituals created early in the twentieth...
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The Scholars and the Goddess - Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk

Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001

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Goddess religion--Research, Paganism--History, Witchcraft--History, Witches--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are...introduction to Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk (nee Miriam...sometimes showing her giving birth to the "Divine Child-her...influenced by such things as Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth-century...trumpeted, borrowing from rituals created early in the twentieth...

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Newspaper Articles on: birth ritual

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Praise Be! A New Spirit to Lift Gloom; Light in the Darkness: A Lone Carol Singer in the Age-Old Ritual of Celebrating Christ's Birth

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 26, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Praise Be! A New Spirit to Lift Gloom; Light in the Darkness: A Lone Carol Singer in the Age-Old Ritual of Celebrating Christs Birth. Byline: John MacLeod IAM afraid, as a hard-core Wee Free, I have a shocking confession to make...
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Supreme Court Bar Ritual Includes Role for Mom or Dad

Newspaper article by Frank J. Murray; The Washington Times, March 16, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Supreme Court bar ritual includes role for mom or dad...major family affair capped by ritual photos on the front steps...JoLynn to a hospital for the birth of their first child. He said...mine or that she would give birth right there." Most Supreme...
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Children 'Lured by Satanic Rituals'

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 10, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Children Lured by Satanic Rituals. Paedophile rings are using satanic rituals to dominate children during...small amount" of organised ritual abuse in Britain with victims...were not being registered on birth certificates to make them...its own research project into ritual abuse which may lead to an...
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Daily Ritual Is as Close as Little Ellie Will Get to Meeting Big Bro Daniel; FIVE Years after the Tragic Death of Her Son Daniel, Mum Clare Conroy Tells LINDSAY BRUCE of the 'Nightmare' That Continues to Have a Huge Impact on Her Family

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 24, 2011

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Daily Ritual Is as Close as Little Ellie Will Get to Meeting Big Bro Daniel; FIVE Years...from Belfast. Then aged eight, Amy had suffered from liver disease since birth and needed to have a transplant. In a twist of fate Amys dad, Alan, learned...
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Pagan Rituals on Web Site Rile Episcopalians

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 1, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Pagan Rituals on Web Site Rile Episcopalians...of sexuality, fertility and birth. The rite was attributed to...tuathadebrighid.org. One, an "erotic ritual" for the spring festival of...Eucharist to our Mother Goddess" ritual on the site - which since has...had posted messages and rituals at www.druidnetwork.org...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: birth ritual

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Fertility Rites

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to insure an abundance of food and the birth of children. The rites, expressed through...Persephone). This myth, symbolizing the birth, death, and reappearance of vegetation...fields, displays of phallic symbols, and ritual prostitution. In India it was once believed...The Maypole dance derives from spring rituals glorifying the phallus...
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Sacrifice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...important times in an individuals life (birth, puberty, marriage, death), and...Europe also had religions with sacrificial rituals. Perhaps the most fully developed was...developed a particularly bloody and elaborate ritual of human sacrifice. Human sacrifice...Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (1983); U. M. Vesci, Heat...
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Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...contact, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, old age, and death, whence again ignorance...beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth...which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system...
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Indian Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...paintings in the rock-cut cave at Ajanta narrate the Buddhas birth as an elephant and the entire synopsis of historic life. In...deities, figures of whom were used for processional and home ritual. Skilled cire-perdue sculptures were produced until the late...
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Sculpture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of sculptural masterworks, frequently monolithic, that had ritual significance beyond aesthetic considerations (see Egyptian...more intimate art of Clodion and Houdon , and it also saw the birth of neoclassicism in the work of Canova . This derivative style...

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