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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

...differences between ritual performances, and the...more life-cycle rituals in Tudor and Stuart...those associated with birth, marriage, and death...childbearing enjoyed ritual gatherings and ceremonies...households experienced the ritual instruction of catechism...There may have been rituals associated with leaving...
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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

...series of major and minor ritual events. While predominantly...a few rites to mark birth, marriage, and death...endless sequence of ritual obligations. Birth rituals, for example, are...emergence , birth and birth rituals appear to provide some...metaphors for all sorts of ritual processes, as well...
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Christian Symbol and Ritual: An Introduction

Book by Bernard Cooke, Gary Macy; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Christian Art And Symbolism, Liturgics, Ritual

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...traditionally been aided by people gathering for rituals. Families in wealthy industrialized societies...career, and so on. All societies seem to have birth rituals and at least some rituals to mark the transition from childhood to adult...
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The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad

Book by Joan V. O'Brien; Rowman & Littlefield, 1993

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Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Goddesses, Greek, In Literature, Hera (Greek Deity) In Literature, Hera (Greek Deity)--Cult, Heroes In Literature, Homer--Iliad, Ritual In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sometimes in the context of battles, sometimes in the context of births and deaths. Chapter 6.Cs analysis of themes in the Iliad...Heraia Chaps. 3.A, 6.B, Fig. 22 apparently figured in birth rituals. Yet, the ____________________ 8. For...
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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context

Book by Michael Stausberg; Brill, 2004

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Zoroastrianism--Rituals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ceremonies; vows; practices pertaining to menstruation and birth; individual rituals and prayers; the main rituals of purifications; festi- vals ; elements of rituals and smaller ritual acts (microrituals). The conclusion emphasizes the accommodative...

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Journal Articles on: birth rituals

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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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Gerhard Muller-Kosack, the Way of the Beer: Ritual Re-enactment of History among the Mafa, Terrace Farmers of the Mandara Mountains (North Cameroon)

Journal article by Serge Genest; Africa, Vol. 73, 2003

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Books--Book reviews, The Way of the Beer: ritual re-enactment of history among the Mafa, terrace farmers of the Mandara mountains (North Cameroon) (Book)--Book reviews

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...focuses on conceptualising ritual action. This means...domestic and individual rituals (for example marriage, birth and death rituals), collective rituals (the most impressive...intertwined with the whole ritual process analysis and...

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Magazine Articles on: birth rituals

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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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Giving Birth to New Traditions

Magazine article; Herizons, Vol. 17, Winter 2004

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Births, Feminism, Midwifery, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Racism

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Giving Birth to New Traditions Call it a generational...into the recovery of the sacred birthing rituals of our ancestors. We comb our histories...two birthing centres where mothers can birth with midwives is in Cote-des-Neiges...
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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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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 Ritual World of Pocahontas

Magazine article by Frederic W. Gleach; Natural History, Vol. 115, November 2006

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American history, Native North Americans, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...extremely creative: to conduct a ritual that redefined the English...see it that way) an extended ritual, including a sequence of three...to three consecutive days of rituals, in which groups of three...As I interpret them, the rituals were intended to redefine the...identified as Indian and alter their birth certificates. The Virginia...

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Newspaper Articles on: birth rituals

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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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Luxurious Rituals to Treat a New Mother and Baby; You Can Feel like a Celebrity Too

Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), May 17, 2011

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Celebrities

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

Luxurious Rituals to Treat a New Mother and...Whether youre pre or post-birth, you can treat yourself to...own. The perils of post-birth dont escape many new mums...parchment-like skin after birth, a good organic salve will...
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PARTY LIKE ITS 1999... Sun God: Were the Rituals of Mithras Appropriated by Early Christians?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 23, 2008

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Christianity--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Christians--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

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

...1999... Sun God: Were the Rituals of Mithras Appropriated by Early...this Christmas to celebrate the birth of Christ, and pop a cracker...that this date, too, was the birth date of the Lord Jesus. And...date being attributed to Jesuss birth earlier than AD336, pressure...
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Whose Christmas Is This, Anyway? Simplifying Holiday Rituals Can Return Joy to Season

Newspaper article by Kim Asch; The Washington Times, December 16, 1997

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

...anyway? Simplifying holiday rituals can return joy to season by...spiritual root of the holiday - the birth of Jesus Christ. Something...frightened Jewish girl giving birth miles away from her family and...Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ." "Christmas is...
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Check the CUSTOMS; Traditions from Carol Singing to Yule Logs, We're Still Following the Rituals Established Long Ago

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 8, 2006

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

...Were Still Following the Rituals Established Long Ago. Byline...festivities. Some of these rituals are centuries-old and have...comes from sun-worshipping rituals. lWreaths are popular decorations...Christmas Eve in honour of the birth of their Lord. While waiting...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: birth rituals

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Eliade, Mircea

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...culture and of myths and mystical experiences. Eliades analysis of rites of passage, rituals marking key transitional moments in the life cycle (e.g., birth, adult initiation, death), influenced many anthropologists. His often controversial...
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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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Feast

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...symbolizing communal unity. Generally associated with primitive rituals and later with religious practices, feasts may also commemorate such events as births, marriages, harvests, and deaths. The principal Christian...following the fast of Ramadan and the feast commemorating the birth of Muhammad. In Buddhist countries festive celebrations are...
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Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...perfected form, as in the Amiens and Chartres cathedrals. The birth of Renaissance architecture (15th cent.) inaugurated a period...1960); S. Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings Rituals (1985); M. Trachtenberg and I. Hyman, Architecture: From...
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Roe Deer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...territory in early summer and rut in early fall. Females give birth the following June, usually to two spotted kids of opposite...eight. Called roe rings, they are made during courtship rituals when the male chases the female, and also by the young at play...

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