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Archaeopress (Oxford) 9781407303345 An Archaeological Guide to Bahrain: 2011 Rachel MacLean Archaeopress (Oxford) 9781905739363 The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion: 2011 n/a (edited volume) Oxford University Press (Oxford) 9780199232444 Temporalising Anthropology. Archaeology in the Talensi Tong Hills, Northern Ghana: 2013
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion is a scholarly book about the academic study of religion. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler , the book was published in the United Kingdom in 2016.
Religion may be defined as "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs," [1] whereas ritual is "an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or ...
Ritual landscapes are often associated with origin myths, ancestors, homes of spiritual essences, or locales where mythical or historical events occurred while the landscape features include social memory and the preservation of the myths, histories, trusts, and the belongings of a people. [1]
The leaders of the first generation of the Anglo-Catholic revival or Oxford Movement (i.e., Newman, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and John Keble) had been primarily concerned with theological and ecclesiological questions and had little concern with questions of ritual. They championed the view that the fundamental identity of the Church of England ...
The theory posits that these differing ritual patterns promote the transmission of religious traditions by exploiting core memory processes. Imagistic rituals arouse strong emotion and generate vivid, flashbulb like, episodic memories , while doctrinal rituals repetitive nature means that rather than individual events the experiences over time ...
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media, edited by Diane Winston. London and New York: Oxford University Press [17] "Witchcraft Since the 1960s” 2011 Children and Religion: A Methods Handbook, edited by Susan B. Ridgely. New York: New York University Press [18] "Religion and Youth Culture” 2010
In the doctrinal mode, rituals are frequent and relatively tame, producing indefinitely expandable communities with standardized beliefs and practices. Whitehouse's published corpus includes a trilogy of books outlining his theory on modes of religiosity [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the dysphoric pathway to identity fusion.