Meaning Of Ritual Research Articles

ПОГРЕБАЛЬНАЯ ПОСУДА И ПИЩЕВЫЕ СТРАТЕГИИ В ДРЕВНОСТИ

The article continues the publication of the results of multidisciplinary study of the Bronze Age cemetery Nepluyevsky in the Southern Trans-Urals, presenting the experience of studying the soil contents of ceramic vessels from kurgan 1. The pottery collection consists of 95 pots found intact or fragmentated in burials, food offerings pits and cenotaphs, as well as outside structures, i. e. on the ancient surface horizon. All studied structures were attributed to the Srubnaya culture, mainly to its Srubnaya-Alakul variant. The undertaken reconstruction of funeral food is based on comparative analysis of chemical compounds in soil samples from 54 archaeologically intact pots using X-ray and mass-spectrometry. The studied pottery includes decorated and non-decorated pots of different shapes. There are no any traces of utilization, that is why one may presume its ritual meaning. During laboratory analyses, its soil content marks high points titers of biogenic elements such as P, K, Ca and Mg, which used to be the difference in funereal meals. The results obtained made it possible to reconstruct the original contents of ritual ceramics. Thus, there is no evidence of meat, the vessels could contain both milk/fermented milk products and water/herbal drinks, or they could be empty as well. There is not any strong connection between the age of the deceased and the food offerings. The absence of cereals residues in the studied samples is noteworthy, which is typical for groups with a predominantly meat and dairy diet.

Waking (for) the Nation: Immaterial Materialism and the Feminine Body in Tom Murphy’s The Wake (1998)

The paper examines Tom Murphy’s play The Wake and the significance of its staging as part of the Abbey Theatre’s 1916 centenary “Waking the Nation” programme. The play critiques the process by which various elements of capitalism – in particular materialistic culture, bourgeois morality and hypocrisy – combine to commodify, repress and eliminate the human body. Murphy suggests that the pitfalls of materialism point to the ironic truth that it denies the substantive materiality to our bodily existence. The female body in particular is continually subjected to violence and exploitation. By dramatising the emotional consequences of this immaterial materialism through the lens of a marginalised female émigré and sex worker, the play contests and subverts the woman / nation figurations in the context of Irish literary, theatrical and cultural imagination. The meaning of the wake ritual is revisited and experienced as a temporary celebration of theatre as community.

Revelling in Interaction Rituals：The Impact of Interaction Ritual Chains of Live-Broadcast E-Commerce on Users&Apos; Long-Term Viewership

In recent years, the live-broadcast e-commerce has been developed rapidly, attracting a large number of users. However, the ultimate success of the platforms depend on users’ continued adoption behavior. Based on meaning transfer model and interaction ritual chain theory, this study develops a theoretical framework of how interaction rituals in live-broadcasts affect users' long-term viewership based on using grounded theory approach. We found that users’ continuous watching behavior is rooted in the formation of the interaction rituals of live-broadcast. The interactive ritual of live-broadcast is formed by the transfer of the basic meaning of live-broadcast to the meaning of the interaction rituals, and the interactive ways between those two meanings drive the transfer of “meaning chains”. The underlying psychological mechanisms are examined. This study find that the formation process of user continuous viewing behavior is influenced by the following four factors: anchor factor, user factor, platform factor and social factor.

Broń jako wyznacznik prestiżu, rekwizyt rytuału oraz świadectwo kontaktów w Barbaricum w młodszym okresie przedrzymskim i w okresie wpływów rzymskich

Broń jako wyznacznik prestiżu, rekwizyt rytuału oraz świadectwo kontaktów w Barbaricum w młodszym okresie przedrzymskim i w okresie wpływów rzymskich

Ritual Protostructure of a Work of Art

The article considers the ritual protostructure of a work of art as a text that awakens the process of spiritual initiation (“second birth”) in the recipient’s mind. This is the “inner border” of art, where it shows its derivation from the structure of religious ritual as a symbolic act of overcoming death. Artistry arises where and when our consciousness passes through a point of chaos, through a “break” of being, and then with a new effort again gathers the world into space, fixing this new vision, which has overcome the disintegration, in the strictness of an expressive form. The experience of the “inner”, existential passage through symbolic death can be considered as an analogue of the archaic ritual in the inner world of man. Thanks to this, art in any era effectively fulfilled the existential task of overcoming personal crises. In this aspect, the ultimate ontological categories of human experience — Life, Death, Sacrifice, and Resurrection — fix the basic ontology of a work of art. The general cultural ontology, defined by the dialectic of Space and Chaos, also underlies the structure of artistic reality — this makes it possible to recreate micro- and macrocosms by artistic means. Thanks to this, art in any era effectively fulfilled the existential task of overcoming personal crises. The use of such models for understanding the analysis of the structures of the artwork allows to reconstruct the “inner border” of art — play in this ritual experience of the unity of man with a cosmic mystery of life. The examples of two poems show the “mechanisms” of the ritual meanings of the work of art. Understanding the ritual protostructure of a work can be a valuable basis for using art as a tool for personal development, as a special type of art practice aimed at expanding the existential space of a person. Such art practice is possible only with the ritual understanding of the work as a kind of “existential accelerator”, in which the purely aesthetic, emotional, historical and other aspects of the content of the work go into the context, into the background.

Petosiris in his Tomb at Dachla: Venerating the Deceased in Roman Egypt.

The paper investigates the interesting classical figure of Petosiris in his Roman tomb at El-Mazawaka necropolis of Dakhla, who wears the traditional Greek garment of the chiton and the himation. It explores the high appeal of Petosiris to appear in this costume in his tomb? Is this a kind of a fashionable Hellenistic’s influence or it still has its Egyptian concept? Also, the paper highlights the funerary cult for the deceased in his tomb, through the offering-priests who venerate Petosiris on the walls of his tomb. Furthermore, the article analysis the ritual meaning of the objects in the hands of Petosiris. The classical figure of Petosiris confirms his high status as one of the elites in the community, as well as the mixture of Egyptian and Hellenistic - Romano art, and in fact,itdoes not resemble the ethic of the patron of the deceased either Egyptian, Greek, or Roman.

Interpretive Paradigm in Psychology


 The Purpose of this article is to know interpretive paradigm in Psychology. When researchers examine cultural behavior, especially the experience of individuals then to detect and describe some aspects of the implied culture, hidden rules, the meaning of rituals and worship in a cultural society, they should use interpretive paradigm. The interpretive paradigm in the field of psychology is a foundation for qualitative research methods. A qualitative approach can be used when the researcher understands the informants’ point of view more deeply, dynamically and will explore various factors simultaneously and can be used in informal situations. There are four types of qualitative research paradigms namely ethnography, case studies, phenomenology and grounded theory.

Marriage Rituals Practiced Among Tadvi Bhil Tribe of Jalgaon, Maharashtra

This paper is based on Tadvi Bhil tribe’s marriage rituals practices in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. This paper is an outcome of the fieldnotes like methodological notes, descriptive notes and analytical notes. It is an ethnographic study; an attempt has been made to understand and interpret the contextual and symbolic meanings of the Tadvi Bhil marriage rituals practiced. The methods like Boldhana, Futane, Nivtya, Bajarand lagnavidhiare pre-marriage practices which are described in details gives the idea and thought of the traditionalbelief system in Tadvi Bhil. The purpose of marriage in Tadvi culture is the creation of family. The central event in the Tadvi tribe is wedding the ‘nikah’. There is inclusion of some new rites in marriage method of Tadvi Bhil after conversion to Islam, once the tika method is over nikah a method starts which is done by Qazi.Tadvi’s marriage is a combination of Tribal rites and Islamic rites, which is found in this piece of research, explains various expressions of Tadvi Bhil towards marriage institution.

Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls

This paper explores the dynamics of (dis)trust among experts, journalists, and audiences through the case study of an inaccurate exit poll aired on a leading Israeli television channel. It combines empirical data from the Israeli April 2019 elections with a conceptual view of exit polls as both sources of information and national rituals to address public discourse on the polls and its underlying suspicions. A multi-method approach yielded a corpus consisting of focus groups with citizens, in-depth semi-structured interviews with journalists, pollsters and experts, and qualitative textual analysis of news reports. Using inductive-qualitative analysis, we identified three types of public narratives, each casting blame for the erroneous exit poll projection on a different type of actor. The statistical and biased-media narratives tally with declining trust in the news media and assume misbehavior by pollsters and news creators respectively. The deception narrative, on the other hand, suggests that right-wing voters systematically sabotaged the exit poll projections. By extending trust beyond journalistic information, this narrative foregrounds the cultural meaning of election night rituals. Taken together, the narratives found in this study delineate (dis)trust as an interplay of active participants in the creation, reception, and interpretation of news. Our findings thus touch upon key attitudes towards both media and democracy and have implications for further studies on collective rituals and information evaluations in an era of eroding trust.

Revisiting the Plague in the Age of Galileo

Revisiting the Plague in the Age of Galileo

The Urgency of Water for Human life in Science and Al Quran Perceptive

Abstract. Water being the most important component to life directness in the earth, especially for mankind. Water is not only used for physical needs but also used for spiritual purposes like a purification symbol in Islam. Islam requires its followers to perform ablution (using water) before performing prayers or reading the Al-Quran. In some regions, especially in Java, water is considered sacred because it is used to means of ritual. Water is also being the source of civilization. The water complexity for human life can’t be separated from the molecular components are compose it. Some of the medical research was found the water peculiarity as a potion. The another of water peculiarity famous as crystal structures, righteously human, water has an emotional. The water peculiarities were summarized in the Holy Quran and the Science development has given evidence that water is the great miracles Allah SWT has given to mankind, it is not a chance but it is a great management

Religious Messages of Dikee Molod Verses during the Celebration of Maulid Nabi in Aceh Besar, Indonesia (A Case Study of Group Dikee Molod of Dayah Tgk Chik Digla)

This study focuses on ritual practice of dikee molod which is played by the Group of Dayah Tgk Chik Digla during the events surrounding the birthday of Prophet Muhammad PBUH in Aceh Besar. The study used qualitative methods with a public opinion survey approach. Data collection was done by comparing the data, categorisation, presenting data and making the inferences toward certain written information. The data validity is ensured by reading repeatedly (validity semantic), referring to the document sources and colleague discussion. By employing the approach of concept of ritual practice, this study emphasises that the verses (syair) of dikee molod will produce religious messages such as the utterance of the only god (monotheism), blessing (shalawat) upon the prophet, and the expression of joy and gladness of the birth of Prophet. In addition, religious messages have been influencing the life of Aceh people in terms of faith (iman) enhancement upon Allah and Rasulullah; influence toward the obedience upon the law (syariat) of Allah and sunnah of Rasulullah; and third the art of dikee molod ritual can be preserved not only by the networks of ritual meaning of dikee being recognised in the society that shows the function in a cultural event, but also caused by the reproduction of rituals carried out by interested parties and are rooted in a social system.
 Keywords: religiosity, dikee molod, ritual practice, Dayah, Aceh

Giacomo Lercaro in Bologna

Facing the emergency of building new churches, while Bologna was living a demographic boom in the fifties, Giacomo Lercaro chose to create an integrate system of progress. The ritual form of faith is spatially determined according to the physical peculiarity of the place in which the salvation is celebrated by Familia Dei. This form invokes an aesthetic-symbolic quality, in order to enable the delivery of human and social poverty in coherence with the Mystery. These experiences accompany the hard research of an appropriate place for the form of faith and an adequate faith for the form of the place. Given the absolute symbolic relevance of the ecclesiastical building and the performative capacity of the ritual, every research and intervention depend to personal and pastoral requirement rooted into extra-liturgical area. In fact, fiddling with the ritual means not only tampering the celebratory quality, but reconfiguring the ecclesial identity itself.

The corporate culture and employees’ performance: an overview

Corporate culture is a significant feature of an organization which is implied as the fundamental aspect of organizational strategy. It facilitates consistent employee behavior and helps new recruits to socialize and adapt to the workplace in accordance with organizational goals.Corporate cultures have manifold influence on employee performance and satisfaction levels.Employees act more sincerely and responsibly to attain organizational goals, once they are certain of their direct involvement in the organization. Culture of an organization helps employees develop their skills to observe and question expressive meanings of organizational rituals as well as gives a sense of distinctiveness to its members. As the employees spend the major part of their life while working with organizations, corporate culture gives them an opportunity to enhance their creativity, and direct their attitudes toward everything associated to work life. Thus, organizational culture influences organizational effectiveness. The culture of a workplace has a strong impact on the welfare of workplace in both short as well as long term and a positive culture escalates the proficiency and performance of organizations. The present study examines the relationship between organizational culture and employees’ functioning and performance. In addition, it explores the impact of organizational culture on employees’performance.

The corporate culture and employees’ performance: an overview

Corporate culture is a significant feature of an organization which is implied as the fundamental aspect of organizational strategy. It facilitates consistent employee behavior and helps new recruits to socialize and adapt to the workplace in accordance with organizational goals.Corporate cultures have manifold influence on employee performance and satisfaction levels.Employees act more sincerely and responsibly to attain organizational goals, once they are certain of their direct involvement in the organization. Culture of an organization helps employees develop their skills to observe and question expressive meanings of organizational rituals as well as gives a sense of distinctiveness to its members. As the employees spend the major part of their life while working with organizations, corporate culture gives them an opportunity to enhance their creativity, and direct their attitudes toward everything associated to work life. Thus, organizational culture influences organizational effectiveness. The culture of a workplace has a strong impact on the welfare of workplace in both short as well as long term and a positive culture escalates the proficiency and performance of organizations. The present study examines the relationship between organizational culture and employees’ functioning and performance. In addition, it explores the impact of organizational culture on employees’ performance.

Il santuario, la festa e il culto di Maria Santissima della Campana a Casarano (Lecce)

Casarano is a town in the Apulian province of Lecce. In the suburb of this town, upper a little hill, is located the Sanctuary of Madonna della Campana, built in the 17th century. This sanctuary represents the center of a traditional feast, celebrated in the Sunday and Monday after Easter, characterized by particular ritual forms. This work analyzes the local traditions concerning the Madonna della Campana, the ritual symbolism of the festival and the meaning of rituals and symbols in the context of ancient rural and contemporary society.

Echoes of the Past: Women, Memories and Disc-on-Bow Brooches in Vendel- and Viking-period Scandinavia

This article examines the development, handling, and depositions of disc-on-bow brooches from the sixth to tenth centuriesadin the Vendel and Viking periods in Norway and mainland Sweden. A revised typological framework is presented, and the context of these brooches explored. The authors discuss their preservation, re-use, fragmentation, and ritual meaning within ongoing social negotiations and internal conflicts from the late Vendel period into the Viking Age. References to the past in Viking-Age society and the significance of women for maintaining narratives of the past are considered, as are levels of access, control, and definition of narratives of the past in times of social redefinition.

Liturgy and Landscape—Re-Activating Christian Funeral Rites through Adaptive Reuse of a Rural Church and Its Surroundings as a Columbarium and Urn Cemetery

We present the design research for the adaptive reuse of the St. Odulphus church as a columbarium in the village of Booienhoven (BE). Surrounded by agriculture, the site is listed as a historic rural landscape. The small neoclassical church is no longer in use for traditional Catholic services and is abandoned. Positioned on an isolated “island”, it has the appropriate setting to become a place to remember and part from the dead. Instigated by the municipality, and taking into account the growing demand for cremation, we present topological research on three different liturgical and spatial levels: 1/the use of the church interior as a columbarium and for (funeral) celebration, 2/the transformation of the “island”, stressing the idea of “passage” and 3/the layering of the open landscape reactivating the well-spring and its spiritual origins. Based on the reform of the funeral rite after Vatican II, we propose a layered liturgy that can better suit the wide variety of funeral services in Flanders today, while at the same time respecting its Catholic roots. Rather than considering the reuse of the church a spiritual loss, we believe that it can offer the opportunity to reinforce and open up the traditional, symbolic and ritual meaning of the Christian liturgy to the larger community. As such, this case is an excellent example of how, in exploring new architectural and liturgical questions, religious sites can be transformed into contemporary places for spirituality.

The Fifteenth Month: Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli

Recently, the interest in the 18 months of the annual Aztec calendar, also called xihuitl (365-day year) in Nahuatl, has grown significantly. John Schwaller's book The Fifteenth Month offers an example of this increasing interest and proposes an overview of Panquetzaliztli, a festival celebrated over the 20 days of the 15th month of the Aztec calendar. This study covers all available sources and analyses, as well as all social, economic, and religious aspects of Panquetzaliztli. Furthermore, Schwaller deals with certain issues that have not received much attention from scholars, such as the variety of rituals among the Nahuas of central Mexico and their transformations over time.The book is organized into an introduction and six chapters. Chapter 1 discusses several sources that describe aspects of the festival that were carried out outside Tenochtitlan, principally the Memoriales of Fray Toribio de Benavente (known as Motolinía), one of the first Franciscan missionaries to investigate Mexican antiquities; and the Primeros memoriales, the first version of the ethnographic work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the festival through the two historical sources that contain most of the information about Panquetzaliztli: the Historia de las Indias de Nueva España by the Dominican Diego Durán and the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, which is the last version of Sahagún's work. Chapter 4 compares the rituals of Panquetzaliztli with those of other festivals and analyzes the visual information contained in the New Spain pictographic sources. Chapter 5 pays attention to the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli that other authors have considered of less importance in the context of the festival. Finally, chapter 6 is devoted to the innovations introduced by the Mexicas into the Panquetzaliztli festival.The most interesting aspects of Schwaller's book are two points that have tended to be neglected in the Mesoamerican field: the effort to offer a reconstruction of the historical development of Panquetzaliztli and the attempt to distinguish between the elements that were common among all Aztec or Nahua people and those that were unique to the Mexicas, the inhabitants of Mexico Tenochtitlan. For example, in chapter 5 Schwaller puts forward the hypothesis that Panquetzaliztli was formerly dedicated to Tezcatlipoca rather than to Huitzilopochtli and that the introduction of the latter god was a Mexica innovation. In chapter 6, the author emphasizes the transformation of the Mexicas into an imperial people who subjugated most of Mesoamerica with the imposition of tributes and the establishment of lucrative long-distance trade. In this context, he argues, the performance every 52 years of the New Fire ceremony during Panquetzaliztli can be understood as a change implemented by the Mexicas, who moved this ritual from the first month of the year 1-Rabbit to the fifteenth month of the year 2-Reed.While these hypotheses are fresh and thought-provoking, in particular for those in the field who have tended to focus on only the symbolic meaning of ritual and not the political and historic process of transformation, certain critiques can be leveled against them. In the first case, although Schwaller refers to Michel Graulich's proposal regarding the substitution of Quetzalcoatl by Huitzilopochtli (see pp. 153–54), he prefers to think that the god that Huitzilopochtli replaced was and had always been Tezcatlipoca. Here Schwaller seems not to give too much importance to the fact that, in Nahua myths, the god Quetzalcoatl is born from Coatlicue, as is Huitzilopochtli, who was ritually born of this goddess every year in Panquetzaliztli.In the second case, the hypothesis according to which the Mexicas moved the New Fire ceremony from the first month of the year to the fifteenth month is difficult to trace back to reliable historical sources. This proposal is based on a rather surprising statement by Schwaller: “According to Sahagún and others, five days of preparation (the nemontemi) preceded the New Fire ceremony” (p. 175). However, Schwaller does not quote these sources, and while I found a brief mention in Motolinía's Memoriales, I was not able to find any reference in Sahagún's work to the celebration of the New Fire ceremony on the first day of the year after the last five days, called nemontemi in Nahuatl. This proposition must therefore be considered deeply speculative, because it is based only on one source (Motolinía) that, furthermore, is not completely clear on this specific subject.These two critiques point to the book's potential to spark interesting conversations among specialists of central Mexico Nahuas. This book is also recommended for scholars with a more general interest in the history and religion of Mesoamerican cultures, as it offers a comprehensive view of the main sources and the ritual life of the Aztecs.

The confirmation ritual in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark: conveyance of a religious experience or play-acting?

ABSTRACT The article explores the meaning of the confirmation ritual in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. Two cases show two different understandings. In case one the minister holds that the rite is play-acting. Everything belonging to Christian initiation is given in baptism. Case two is in accordance with generation-old tradition reflected in the expectations of confirmands and parents. Here the ritual conveys a special blessing not repeatable. But is it possible to uphold a strict theological view that Christian initiation belongs to baptism and nothing is left for confirmation? Or are the effects of the room, adornment, music, lights, and traditions of the ceremony overwhelming and contain the capacity to sweep away consequent theological thinking? Is the ritual what it expresses; a special blessing in harmony with baptism? The discussion in the article refers back to Luther and the early Reformers and represents a contribution to an ongoing critical conversation.