Essays about: "ritual theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 essays containing the words ritual theory.

  1. 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 religionsbeteendevetenskap

    Author : Michel Starco; [2023]
    Keywords : Quality of safety; Belly2Belly; Liminality; Interpretive drift; Embodiment of intimacy; Embodiment; Lived religion; Intimacy; Co-regulation; Intercorporeity; Ritual; Auto-reflexive ethnography; Negotiating somatic consent; Habitus; Socialization; Polyvagal theory.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. The Mesolithic Skeletons of Motala Canal

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Viktor Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Prehistory; Stone Age; Ritual; Skeletal Remains; Kanaljorden; Mesolitikum; Stenåldern;

    Abstract : This essay is about the Mesolithic of Motala Canal and the depositions that have been found there, including a large number of animal bones. I would argue the most important discovery at this site was the human skulls, which will be the main topic of this essay. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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/Arkeologi

    Author : Nell Andersson; [2023]
    Keywords : bog bodies; bog skeletons; spatial perspective; landscape archaeology; early iron age; liminality; entanglement; ritual perspective; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : 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

  5. 4. Living among gods – The Capacocha children : A hermeneutic analysis of the Chakana philosophy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Frida Ekberg Toscano; [2023]
    Keywords : Capacocha ritual; Huacas; Chakana; Inca world belief; sacred landscape; offerings; phenomenology theory; hermeneutic spiral;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Ivan Grelz; [2023]
    Keywords : Portal; Gate; Architecture; Theory; Threshold; Liminal; Nature; Myth; Ritual; Speed; Depth;

    Abstract : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. READ MORE