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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 440.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Weber William , The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1992 ), 274 pp. ...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 518–519.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Susan Stephens Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 415 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews
Loren Samons II...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 561.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Don Seeman Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J. Puett, and Bennett Simon, Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 248 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS
Sarah McNamer, Affective...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... meditations on the defensive function of rituals and symbols. More practically, the lecture was intended, by its successful drafting and delivery before an audience of inmates, doctors, and professional colleagues, to prove Warburg's sanity and secure his release. Through an investigation of the outbreak...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 220–232.
Published: 01 April 2019
... before. He then goes on to discuss, as exemplary of Japanese attitudes toward change, the Shinto ritual during which the sacred shrines of Ise Jingū are torn down and rebuilt every twenty years. The essay concludes by explaining how the impetus for this ritual is also involved in less-exalted aspects...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 308–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Aude Aylin de Tapia In the nineteenth-century Ottoman empire, Cappadocia, in the heart of Anatolia, was one of the last regions where Rum Orthodox Christians cohabited with Muslims in rural areas. Among the main aspects of everyday coexistence were the beliefs and ritual practices that, shared...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 276–289.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the communist regime in 1989. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article shows that the protracted workings of the socialist elevation of work identity are expressed in this ritual that has developed under the auspices of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, while at the most conspicuous level, Bulgarian Orthodoxy...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 10–18.
Published: 01 January 2015
... — the rage for self-aggrandizement — motivate the initiators of wars. Given this assumption about motive, the Greco-Latin tradition tends also to regard negotiations based on the rational discussion of material interests as unlikely to succeed. Success requires symbolic and ritual gestures — acts of self...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the history of Jews’ relations with Christians and Muslims. Abraham Geiger, one of the founders of the reform movement, which sought to modernize Judaism by simplifying its ritual and making it more amenable to European society, was also a scholar of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Geiger presented Muhammad...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 233–258.
Published: 01 April 2019
... ancient rites. The so-called Meiji Restoration actually continued an imperial policy of restoring and intensifying the observance of Shinto rituals that were threatened by neglect. Meiji intervened personally in 1889 to ensure the continuity of hikyoku , an unvoiced and secret serenade to Amaterasu...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 290–297.
Published: 01 April 2020
... from sub-Saharan Africa have contributed to the growth of both Catholic and Protestant churches in Tunis. This article analyzes the ways in which various Christian groups organize and articulate their religious practice and proselytization in ritual spaces that are sparse and must be shared...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the violent demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya by militant Hindus, but even at that time she found no trace of such belligerence in the Hindustani musical world. Years later, while conducting research on the Shinto music rituals of her own culture, she discovered a little-known imperial...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 396–423.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., ritually and religiously sanctioned, order based on strict adherence to caste and gender roles. We first trace the classical roots of the tension between dharma and nīti and then set out how these two bodies of texts came to play distinct and evolving roles in medieval and early modern south India. We...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 341–346.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is commended to the improbable attention of students of diplomacy, is founded on belief that imagination, rather than instrumental reason, and ritual action, rather than negotiation, are the best means of achieving peace. Strathern Andrew and Stewart Pamela J. , Peace-Making and the Imagination...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 216–223.
Published: 01 May 2022
... here, “he would have to look back on his biography from after death” — and in this piece he hauntingly does so. Explaining that he composed his first autobiography upon being expelled from university in Hungary after Stalin's death in 1953, he defines the process as “the main event in the ritual...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 484–509.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-called Meiji Restoration actually continued an imperial policy of restoring and intensifying the observance of Shinto rituals that were threatened by neglect. Meiji intervened personally in 1889 to ensure the continuity of hikyoku , an unvoiced and secret serenade to Amaterasu, by extending its venue...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 8–24.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in the modern world. The four, very broadly, are values and norms (such as recoil from competition) that nurture peace, exceptional capacity for and recognition of the necessity of cooperation, exceptionally flexible and multilayered definitions of identity, and rituals that effect and strengthen peace. Neither...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 69–80.
Published: 01 January 2016
... beings and that our being so is manifested in the widespread belief, found across cultures and historical epochs, that taking human life contaminates the killer and may pose a threat to the entire community, unless rituals of purification are performed to counteract it. Examples from the Hebrew Bible...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., with regard to ritual and gender‐based religious practices in the Christian West, and with respect to similarities that might be claimed between elements of Christian and non‐Christian cultures. Her thoughts about morphology, materiality, and gender extend beyond medieval Europe to the world at large. Her...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 261–275.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., thread spools) are to be found there, as well as more conventional writ- ten messages. Since these pilgrims are not Christians, their votive rituality is a variety of exopraxis, as well as well as of bracconage (cross- cultural poaching) and bricolage (as defined by Lévi- Strauss).1 An exopraxis...
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