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- Bulgaria's fire dancers fight to keep sacred ritual
- BULGARI, Bulgaria AFP — As night falls over the remote village of Bulgari, a handful of men and women prepare for "Nestinarstvo", an ancient fire dance that practitioners fear is being trivialised by tourism. "It doesn't matter how hot the embers are. You just switch off and feel or...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Asceticism and the hopeful self: subjectivity, reductionism, and modernity
- Recently at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem I was struck by an Orthodox nun who queued to kneel by Christ's tomb in a very pious way, to be ushered out after only a minute or so by a monk whose job it was to ensure a regular...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Tears, tributes abound
- NEW YORK -- Clutching photos to their hearts and blowing kisses to the sky, tearful loved ones of Sept. 11 victims recited a 3 1/2- hour litany of the lost Monday, the names echoing across an expanse still largely barren five years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center. ...
- Research articles 2006-09-12
- "Making Special": An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art.
- Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar and lecturer. To the casual observer, the arts appear to be products of culture, not biology. Their forms differ widely from society to society, and societies vary in the value they attach to individual arts. Yet the fact ...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Ritual initiates Jones into Senate fraternity
- DENVER Freshman Sen. Ed Jones said it took him a few moments to realize they were kidding. The Colorado Springs Republican saw his first bill to reach the Senate floor torn to shreds Friday by fellow Republicans, who peppered him with questions before killing the bill. ...
- Research articles 2003-01-18
- For Cod's Sake; How the doom of the fish supper turned a planet-
- I am especially guilty when in Borecelona mode. Fleets of Spanish factory fishing ships scour the seas on my behalf. If I'm not eating a plate of pescaditos wee fish not the size of your pinkie at Bar Tomas, it's a portion of sardinas, the pescadito's slightly bigger siblings, at...
- Research articles 2002-11-03
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- In what has become an annual ritual, both Houses of Congress passed continuing resolutions to keep the government operating into the 2004 fiscal year that began Oct. 1, because Congress has not completed action on appropriations bills for the new year.(Wa
- In what has become an annual ritual, both Houses of Congress passed continuing resolutions to keep the government operating into the 2004 fiscal year that began Oct. 1, because Congress has not completed action on appropriations bills for the new yea In what has become an...
- Research articles 2003-10-03
- STONE TOMBS AND ANCIENT RITUAL: STATUS MARKING AND SOCIAL ROLES IN THE EARLY LATE WOODLAND OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
- ABSTRACTThe discovery of an unusual stone-lined burial chamber in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during an archaeological salvage excavation prompted the reexamination of certain aspects of mortuary ritual and social organization in the Early Late Woodland in southeastern Michigan. Previous research in this region is underdeveloped with respect to hypotheses regarding ritual...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Muslim pilgrims perform final hajj ritual before leaving Mecca
- MINA, Saudi Arabia AFP — The annual hajj pilgrimage drew to an end as 2.5 million Muslims from across the world performed the final ritual of stoning the devil, some of them in heavy rain, before preparing to leave Mecca. Pressed to complete the last and most dangerous hajj...
- Research articles 2005-01-22
- Funerals and baptisms, ordinary and otherwise: ritual criticism and Corinthian rites
- Abstract The emerging field of ritual studies gives Second Testament scholars innovative ways of approaching the rites of the Jesus movement and thus enables them better to re-create the community life reflected in the language of the Second Testament. In the case of Corinth, placing the rites of the...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
- Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions. By SAUL M. OLYAN. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. x + 174. [pounds sterling]5. Olyan's subject is the temporal and spatial settings, the ritual patterns, and the social implications of the mourning rites referred to in the Bible. It remains unclear whether...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780
- Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
- Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions, by Saul M. Olyan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 174. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN 0199264864.This volume takes as its subject matter "the understanding of ritual dimensions of mourning as it is represented in biblical [Hebrew Bible] and cognate literatures" (p. 1). With...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- "Dinner for One": a peculiarly German New Year's ritual
- BERLIN AFP ? In the final day of 2003, just as in every year for the past four decades, millions of Germans will join in a time-honoured ritual of watching an English cabaret sketch unknown in its country of origin. "Dinner for One," a televised, black and white English-language...
- Research articles 2003-12-30
- Muslims swarm Satan stones to repeat risky hajj ritual despite 251 deaths
- MINA, Saudi Arabia AFP ? Nearly two million Muslims jostled to "stone Satan", a day after 251 pilgrims died here carrying out the same ancient ritual, provoking orders from King Fahd to modernise the holy sites of Mecca and Medina where tragedy strikes with terrible regularity. Before dawn, a...
- Research articles 2004-02-02
- Muslim faithful return to enact final hajj ritual despite stampede fears
- MINA, Saudi Arabia AFP ? Nearly two million pilgrims flocked to the final ritual of the annual hajj, fortified by a fatalistic belief in God after 251 Muslims died casting stones at pillars representing the devil. The stampede on Sunday did nothing to quell the fervour of the faithful...
- Research articles 2004-02-03
- Rice porridge ritual predicted major quake in Japan
- TOKYO AFP — An annual ritual at a 1,200-year-old Shinto shrine predicted a major earthquake in southern Japan five days before the tremor rocked the region, a priest told AFP. In the fortune-telling ceremony using rice porridge, the Chiriku Hachimangu shrine in Miyaki town in the Kyushu region warned...
- Research articles 2005-03-21
- In solemn royal ritual, Monaco bids final farewell to Prince Rainier
- MONACO AFP — Residents of the tiny principality of Monaco bid farewell to their long-time ruler Prince Rainier III, who is to be laid to rest beside his beloved wife Grace after a funeral service of solemn royal ritual. In spring sunshine a crowd of several hundred watched uniformed...
- Research articles 2005-04-15
- Papal conclave a mix of ritual and hi-tech security
- VATICAN CITY AFP — The chapel is ready, the tables are out and the place has been swept for bugs: as cardinals withdrew to elect a new pope, they entered a world of ancient ritual and hi-tech security. It began with the cardinals processing in red-robed finery into the...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
- Ritual killings could drive Kenyan lions to extinction
- NAIROBI AFP — Kenya's famed lion prides could be driven to extinction because ritual killings by tribal warriors are decimating their ranks in and around the country's protected game reserves, wildlife experts have warned. The findings were immediately dismissed by members of the Maasai tribe, which is blamed for...
- Research articles 2006-05-23
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