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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Thus , the prophet Samuel who anointed Israel's first kings was offered to God while still a child by his mother , just as Mary was taken to the Temple at three in fulfillment of her parents Joachim and Ann's vow to give her to God ...
Thus , the prophet Samuel who anointed Israel's first kings was offered to God while still a child by his mother , just as Mary was taken to the Temple at three in fulfillment of her parents Joachim and Ann's vow to give her to God ...
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For it is supposed to be on a Ninth of Av that both the First and the Second Temples of Jerusalem were destroyed ... destruction of the Temple is therefore called yeme ben hametzarim , which is Hebrew for “ between two ordeals .
For it is supposed to be on a Ninth of Av that both the First and the Second Temples of Jerusalem were destroyed ... destruction of the Temple is therefore called yeme ben hametzarim , which is Hebrew for “ between two ordeals .
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Weddings were proscribed for two weeks prior to the purification of the temple of Vesta , with its eternal flame tended by the Vestal virgins . Bakers had a holiday in honor of their patron , the goddess of the hearth — at once fire and ...
Weddings were proscribed for two weeks prior to the purification of the temple of Vesta , with its eternal flame tended by the Vestal virgins . Bakers had a holiday in honor of their patron , the goddess of the hearth — at once fire and ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia, Volume 2 Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia, Christian Roy |
| Author | Christian Roy |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2009 |
| ISBN | 1576070891, 9781576070895 |
| Length | 548 pages |
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