Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia, Volume 2This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are or have been part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension. |
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... some Vedic rites such as the homa or butter oblation to the sacred fire are integrated into services that remain ... been sacrificed in this connection , but Nepal remains unsurpassed in the scale of this seasonal bloodletting .
... some Vedic rites such as the homa or butter oblation to the sacred fire are integrated into services that remain ... been sacrificed in this connection , but Nepal remains unsurpassed in the scale of this seasonal bloodletting .
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Still , Iran remains plunged in giddy traditional festive meals with their symbolic chaos for some ten days before and after March foods . 21 , as people travel from one end of the country to the other to spend time and have fun Persian ...
Still , Iran remains plunged in giddy traditional festive meals with their symbolic chaos for some ten days before and after March foods . 21 , as people travel from one end of the country to the other to spend time and have fun Persian ...
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For the latter's connection to the body is thought to remain tenuous during a child's early years , as the high infant mortality rates of former times seemed to demonstrate . If he or she survived a certain number of critical years ...
For the latter's connection to the body is thought to remain tenuous during a child's early years , as the high infant mortality rates of former times seemed to demonstrate . If he or she survived a certain number of critical years ...
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