Essays about: "ritual perspective"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words ritual perspective.
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1. Deep Breath - An auto-reflexive account of a collective journey into the healing practices of shared, embodied, breathing meditation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskapAbstract : When we first encounter past traumatic experiences in ourselves, we are left with a conundrum; how are we to move forward in our everyday lives and thrive, rather than just cope and survive? By participating in the Belly2Belly ritual, providing analytical reflections and a detailed account from an auto-reflexive perspective, I attempt in this thesis to show, through the Belly2Belly ritual, how participants progress from a state of ill-being into a state of well-being, a form of evolution of well-being. This, it can be argued, takes form when the ritual participants are provided with the opportunity to engage with their unconscious habitus and autonomous physiological reactions through embodiment of intimacy. READ MORE
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2. Bog Bodies in a Macro Perspective. A Spatial Study of Early Iron Age Scanian Bog Skeletons and Their Cultural Roles as Seen Through the Liminality Perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : This thesis was written with the aims to better understand the spatial relation between the Scanian iron Age bog bodies and the archaeological remains within the surrounding landscape, which in turn would lead to a new theory of understanding the cultural and social aspects of the bog body phenomenon, specifically by applying the liminality perspective. This was done by approaching the material through a wider macro perspective, as opposed to the normally individual-focused micro perspective most used in the bog body research. READ MORE
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3. Living among gods – The Capacocha children : A hermeneutic analysis of the Chakana philosophy
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : This thesis aims to study the Capacocha, which is an Inca ritual where children were offered to their gods in the sacred places called Huacas (places of origin) and offered artefacts together with the children links to the Inca's sacred symbol, the Chakana, which in turn it is the life philosophy of the Inca culture. This thesis uses this philosophy to understand the phenomenon and the elements that define Huacas and the Capacocha ritual. READ MORE
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4. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora
University essay fromAbstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE
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5. Green is the New Black: Understanding Current and Prospective Pro-Environmental Activities in Ritual and Practice on Death
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Niche pro-environmental innovations in death practices are gaining attention from sector and public stakeholders but can be sidelined due to lack of ritual and practice to support their implementation. The way death practices are conducted in Sweden is examined using transdisciplinary research methods and the multi-level perspective to understand which niche innovations have and have not been incorporated into the regimes which contribute to the bereavement sector and subsequent landscape of Swedish culture. READ MORE
