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Ceremonial Objects
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Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects
This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god’s foo...
Jewish Ceremonial Objects in Transcultural Context
The opening of a new permanent exhibition on religion in the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam in November 2004, which was accompanied by a catalogue entitled Gifts from the Heart: Ceremonial Objects from the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, gave rise to the idea for this volume. Both this publication and the preceding catalogue on the museum's textiles collection (1997) explore Dutch Jewish ceremonial objects, their aesthetic quality and historical background. This issue of Studia Rosenthaliana covers a wider field: the setting is Europe rather than local, and the primary focus is ceremonial objects in their transcultural context. The first cluster of contributions explore the origi...
Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles
A richly illustrated and documented survey of the evolution of synagogue textiles spanning fifteen centuries, offering a detailed analysis of the design and production of mantles, wrappers, Torah scroll binders, and the Torah ark curtain and valance, including the text of inscriptions marking the circumstances of donation.
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in many new and interactive ways and constitute a pioneering attempt to combine ritual and gendered analysis with the study of objects. Contributors include: Anna Andreeva, Monica Bethe, Patricia Fister, Sherry Fowler, Karen M. Gerhart, Hank Glassman, Naoko Gunji, Elizabeth Morrissey, Chari Pradel, Barbara Ruch, Elizabeth Self.
Neglected Witnesses
A number of recent publications have explored what became of art that was looted during the World War II and its aftermath, but little attention has been paid to the fate of Jewish ceremonial objects used during synagogue services and in private households. Like other cultural artifacts, ceremonial objects were silent witnesses to a historical period of profound injustice. In this book, museum professionals - from Amsterdam, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Los Angeles - along with a number of other researchers, tell the story of these objects for the first time: their looting, their rediscovery, the difficult process of restitution, and their worldwide dispersion after the w...
Objects of the Spirit
This unique volume details the art of ritual in Jewish ceremony and how those customs relate to the rise of spirituality in the United States.
