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Thesis (D. A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / "December 2008." Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 11, 2009). Title from score: The four horsemen for SATB choir and mixed ensemble. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-122).

Japan’s early modern period (1568-1868) achieved a break from the violent political and social upheaval of the preceding Warring States period (1467-1568). The return to a stable and more centralized rule was made possible by the development and implementation of an emerging politico-religious trend, in which powerful leaders were posthumously apotheosized and worshiped as tutelary deities. Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa shoguns, was deified and venerated at the Tōshōgū Shrine in Nikkō, and the politico-religious movement that was propagated by Ieyasu’s descendants became a central tool for the government’s legitimacy. Because Ieyasu’s cult was the only source of ideological legitimacy that was exclusive to the Tokugawa, the sources of Tokugawa success can be found by examining the development of the Nikkō shrine and its accompanying religious movement.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente dissertação pretende ser uma pequena contribuição para o campo, ainda pouco explorado, dos estudos das artes sacras afro-descendentes brasileiras. Aqui, intento me aprofundar no mundo delicado e complexo no qual se inserem as esculturas religiosas dos Exus e das Pombajiras da Umbanda. Todo o percurso desenvolvido pelas imagens que figuram esses entes está envolto em uma contraparte imaterial, ligada de maneira indissociável à mítica religiosa e ao afeto. Gerada usualmente em conluio com o onírico e o invisível, as imagens de Exus e Pombajiras ganham formas graças a um processo criativo coletivo e, presentes no mundo material, passam a cumprir função sagrada primordial nos espaços do terreiro e do lar. A demonização, dado visual tão identificável nas representações escultóricas desses entes, esconde um conteúdo simbólico que vai além da associação simplista entre Exu e o diabo. Esses personagens do culto de Umbanda e suas figurações imagéticas se ligam a uma série de fatores culturais e legados mítico-religiosos, contemporâneos e arcaicos, que, submersos em sua simbologia religiosa, podem ser entrevistos pelos ícones de suas representações / This work intends to be a contribution for Brazilian afro descendent sacred arts studies, an area which is not much explored yet. I intend to deepen in the subtle and complex world in which the Umbanda Exus and Pombajiras religious sculptures are inserted. All the route covered by those images that represent those entities is surrounded by a immaterial halfpart linked to its religious mythical environment and affection in an undividable way. Usually generated by a conjunction between the oniric and the invisible, Exus and Pombajiras images gain their morphology due to a creative collective process and, when realized in material world, they play their primordial sacred function at homes and terreiros (Umbanda religious temples). Devilishment process, a visual fact that is identified in sculpture representations of those entities, hides symbolic content which goes beyond the ordinary association between Exu and devil. These Umbanda cult characters and its imagetical representations are connected to several cultural factors and contemporaneous, archaic and mythical religious legacy, which can be perceived on the icons that represent them, when submerged in its religious symbolism

abstract: Redeemed from the Fall is a cantata in five movements for double choir SSAATTBB with Soprano and Baritone soloists and violin, bass clarinet, marimba, and organ. The work’s approximate duration is 19 minutes. The text is derived from ancient and modern scriptures including the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses as contained in the Pearl of Great Price. The textual theme addresses the compelling narrative of the redemption of Adam and Eve after the Fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The work begins with an instrumental overture, In Sorrow, inspired by the fallen state our first parents entered as consequence for partaking of the forbidden fruit. The second movement, The First Angel, is an aria for baritone accompanied by choir a cappella. It sets to music the words of an angel who appeared to Adam proclaiming that animal sacrifice is representative of the future atoning sacrifice of the Son of God. The central movement, The Baptism of Adam, is for soprano solo, choir (SSAA) and the ensemble. It depicts the miraculous events surrounding Adam’s acceptance of the gospel covenant, with the Holy Spirit baptizing Adam by immersion in water. The subsequent a cappella chorus, This Is the Plan of Salvation, further explores the truth that salvation for Adam and Eve and all their posterity was prepared through Christ from the beginning. The full chorus and ensemble perform the finale, Adam Fell, declaring that the very purpose of the Fall was that all humans could know the joy of redemption through Christ. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente dissertação pretende ser uma pequena contribuição para o campo, ainda pouco explorado, dos estudos das artes sacras afro-descendentes brasileiras. Aqui, intento me aprofundar no mundo delicado e complexo no qual se inserem as esculturas religiosas dos Exus e das Pombajiras da Umbanda. Todo o percurso desenvolvido pelas imagens que figuram esses entes está envolto em uma contraparte imaterial, ligada de maneira indissociável à mítica religiosa e ao afeto. Gerada usualmente em conluio com o onírico e o invisível, as imagens de Exus e Pombajiras ganham formas graças a um processo criativo coletivo e, presentes no mundo material, passam a cumprir função sagrada primordial nos espaços do terreiro e do lar. A demonização, dado visual tão identificável nas representações escultóricas desses entes, esconde um conteúdo simbólico que vai além da associação simplista entre Exu e o diabo. Esses personagens do culto de Umbanda e suas figurações imagéticas se ligam a uma série de fatores culturais e legados mítico-religiosos, contemporâneos e arcaicos, que, submersos em sua simbologia religiosa, podem ser entrevistos pelos ícones de suas representações / This work intends to be a contribution for Brazilian afro descendent sacred arts studies, an area which is not much explored yet. I intend to deepen in the subtle and complex world in which the Umbanda Exus and Pombajiras religious sculptures are inserted. All the route covered by those images that represent those entities is surrounded by a immaterial halfpart linked to its religious mythical environment and affection in an undividable way. Usually generated by a conjunction between the oniric and the invisible, Exus and Pombajiras images gain their morphology due to a creative collective process and, when realized in material world, they play their primordial sacred function at homes and terreiros (Umbanda religious temples). Devilishment process, a visual fact that is identified in sculpture representations of those entities, hides symbolic content which goes beyond the ordinary association between Exu and devil. These Umbanda cult characters and its imagetical representations are connected to several cultural factors and contemporaneous, archaic and mythical religious legacy, which can be perceived on the icons that represent them, when submerged in its religious symbolism

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This thesis explores how religion is being represented, interpreted, and discussed in Canadian museums. It draws from a sample of thirty-one semi-structured interviews with curators and museum professionals and from the author’s own observations of fifty-one museums in eleven provinces and territories across Canada to explore the themes of space, power, and identity as they relate to religion in Canadian museums. Using the theories of sacred space created by Knott, this thesis explores how Canadian museums are capable of becoming sacred spaces based on their ability to give visitors numinous experiences, to act as contested spaces, and to serve as a location of religion. Canadian museums are powerful, as argued by Bourdieu and Foucault, by their very nature as places that produce and define knowledge, through claims to objectivity and an emphasis on a progress narrative, giving museums (and curators) power to define what is and is not religious by deciding whether and how to discuss the religious aspects of an artefact, object, or culture. Within the context of these two themes, museums enact Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity by telling stories about different groups in order to create and communicate their identities. Some museums present a homogenous Canadian identity based on white mainline Christian identity while others explore the complexity of Canadian identity by telling the stories of non-mainstream religious or ethnic groups and their participation in Canadian history. Aboriginal peoples in Canada have become involved in the display of their traditions in larger museums and have started creating their own museums and cultural centres where their voices can take precedence.

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