Résumé The subject of this thesis is influence of parents' divorce on young adults. The thesis aims at family rituals and their changes after parents' divorce. The theoretical part of the thesis contains two chapters. The first one describes rituals, their types and their importance for children. The second one describes family, divorce and influence of divorce on the children. The research analyses forms of rituals in families before divorce and their changes during divorce and after divorce. The thesis also focuses on the participants' attitude to family rituals and changes of that in dependence of divorce and participants' attitude to one of the most important rituals of passage - the wedding. The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question, if parents' divorce has some influence on family rituals and the participants' attitude of them and which the view of the participants to the wedding and marriage is. The research demonstrates that parents' divorce has the influence on family rituals and attitude of the participants to family rituals.

This diploma thesis named Fundamental Milestones of Life in Judaism deals, as the title of the diploma thesis suggests with the main transitional rituals in Judaism in terms of religious studies such as birth, bar / bat mitzvah, wedding and death as all these milestones are very important in the life of every Orthodox Jew or Jewess because each of these transitions means for them a certain position in the world, that means, that they know and realize their position in the world. One of the aim of this thesis is to characterize and describe these particular and specific milestones of Jewish life and also, the diploma thesis depicts their history and their development over time. To the beginning, we will describe the history of the Jews, because without this context, life in Judaism, as the Jews live, is really hard to understand. This chapter is followed by the characteristics of Judaism as a religion and then the thesis will focus on the transition rituals themselves and their importance for life in Judaism. The description of these key moments in a Jew's life should then lead to an understanding of the meaning of life as perceived by the Jews themselves.

Esta pesquisa visa analisar as práticas religiosas dos devotos de São João Maria, em uma região interiorana do sul do estado do Paraná e do planalto catarinense. A devoção e o culto ao santo são presentes na região onde, há quase um século, ocorreu a Guerra do Contestado, um movimento de cunho milenarista e messiânico. Procura-se, através de uma etnografia multi-situada, apreender estas práticas religiosas com uma proposta teórica que surge de um campo emergente na antropologia de discussões associadas aos estudos de performance. A partir dos estudos de Stanley Tambiah, intenta-se uma abordagem que privilegia os rituais das práticas de culto ao santo apoiado em um diálogo da antropologia com as perspectivas teatrais oriundas da instigante parceria de autores como Victor Turner e Richard Schechner. / This research intends to analyze the devotees of Saint João Marias religious practices, from an inland region of Paraná state´s south and from the Santa Catarina´s plateau. The devotion and the cult to the Saint can be found at the region where, almost a century ago, occurred the Contestado War, a millenialist and messianic movement. Using the multisited ethnography, we intend to understand these religious practices, through a theoretical proposal which appears by an emergent anthropology field of discussions related to the performance studies. Based on Stanley Tambiah, we propose an approach that privileges the rituals of these practices, supported by a dialogue between anthropology and theatrical perspectives coming from Victor Turner and Richard Schechner works.

Memoria or the medieval remembrance of the dead is integral to our understanding of medieval society. However, memoria was not just a liturgical practice intended to lessen purgatorial suffering, but a ‘total social phenomenon’ that impacted every aspect of life. This thesis follows in the tradition of the German Memoriaforschung school, especially the concepts formulated by Otto Gerhard Oexle. These concepts are here particularly applied to memoria as a group phenomenon. A particular contention of this thesis is that memoria was socially constitutive and thus not only a vehicle to remember the past but a means to create and maintain social groups. Therefore this thesis takes the form of series of case studies drawn from late medieval Livonia (present day Latvia and Estonia) c. 1400-1525. The groups chosen –associations of the urban elites, non-elite brotherhoods, the clergy and the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order – reflect both the strength of the surviving source material and the particular characteristics of the region. Each case study is considered through a series of research questions. How did memoria constitute and shape social relationships? How did memoria create and sustain groups? In what ways was memoria used for political purposes? How did groups use their past to maintain their identities in the present? What role did charity and the poor play? In addition to exploring the above themes, this thesis particularly argues that memoria was used to legitimize power by urban governments and by the Teutonic Order and the archbishops of Riga. This thesis also shows that memoria created the cultural memory of the Teutonic Order and the Rigan church. Memoria sustained the identities of urban elite groups and was essential to creating relationships between the urban elites and non-elite groups.

祝逸雯. / "2013年9月". / "2013 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-205). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Zhu Yiwen.

Historians, in considering Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, have tended to define it in political terms, as an expression of enlightened sociability and of the secular public sphere that supposedly paved the way for modern democracy. A close examination of the lodges in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, between 1749 and 1804, disproves these received notions. It finds that, contrary to scholarly perception, Freemasonry was deeply religious and fervently committed to myth and ritual. Freemasonry in this period was not tied to any one social class, but rather the Fraternity attracted a wide array of mobile, deracinated young men, such as mariners, merchants, soldiers, and actors, and while it was religiously heterogeneous, the Fraternity maintained a close relationship with the Anglican Church. The appeal of Masonry to young men in Atlantic port towns was primarily emotional, offering lasting social bonds amidst the constant upheaval of the eighteenth century, as well as a ritually demarcated refuge from the patriarchal responsibilities of the male gender. Masonry celebrated the holiness of kingship in its myths and symbols; far from hotbeds of revolution, the lodges were haunted by the Jacobite movement, which was firmly royalist and traditionalist. Its main political impact in Anglo-America came in the aftermath of independence, when Masonic art and rhetoric helped to carve out a sphere of sacred institutions and loyalties—such as the Constitution, the Navy, the judiciary, and the figure of George Washington—that purportedly stood above partisan politics, and hence could take the place of the overthrown monarch. Far from proto-democratic, Freemasonry appealed to men’s longing for the unity and stability of a restored Biblical kingdom; the lodges operated largely by social deference and suppressed internal politicking. The Masons summed up their mission in their repeated toasts in the 1790s that prayed, “May universal Masonry be the only universal monarchy.”

<p>In the Korean artist Hyun-Jin Kwak's ongoing project Girls in Uniform she portrays events and moments that transgress the boundaries between the ordinary and the unknown. In her photographs there are frequently ambiguous and cinematic narratives. The pictures are carefully orchestrated and constructed, but they are not spectacular. Kwak's imagery is relatively unexplored. This thesis implements a comparative image analysis of eight of Hyun-Jin Kwak's works, in order to investigate and interpret her imagery. The analysis is based on three recurrent motifs: the uncanny, secrets - rituals and games as well as togetherness. The intention is to investigate the uncanny, which I identify in Kwak's artwork, and explore the mysterious fellowship and secretiveness that the girls have in their games and rituals. The togetherness that often exists between young girls in Kwak's photographs are put in to the context of the twinmyth.</p>

In the Korean artist Hyun-Jin Kwak's ongoing project Girls in Uniform she portrays events and moments that transgress the boundaries between the ordinary and the unknown. In her photographs there are frequently ambiguous and cinematic narratives. The pictures are carefully orchestrated and constructed, but they are not spectacular. Kwak's imagery is relatively unexplored. This thesis implements a comparative image analysis of eight of Hyun-Jin Kwak's works, in order to investigate and interpret her imagery. The analysis is based on three recurrent motifs: the uncanny, secrets - rituals and games as well as togetherness. The intention is to investigate the uncanny, which I identify in Kwak's artwork, and explore the mysterious fellowship and secretiveness that the girls have in their games and rituals. The togetherness that often exists between young girls in Kwak's photographs are put in to the context of the twinmyth.

Bakalaurinio darbo tema – Tautinio kostiumo gamybos būdų sintezė šiuolaikiniame vestuviniame ansamblyje. Šio darbo problematika - tautiškumo ugdymas. Tikslas – formuoti ir sukurti jaunimo teigiamą požiūrį į tautiškumą šeimoje, pradedant vestuvių ceremonija, per tautinio kostiumo sintezę šiuolaikiniame vestuviniame ansamblyje. Šiame darbe atskleidžiamas lietuviškosios tekstilės vaidmuo bei reikšmė vestuvinėse apeigose, jos paskirtis, detaliai analizuojama ornamentika tautiniame kostiume, apžvelgiami dizainerių kurti drabužiai, panaudojant įvairių šalių tautinius ornamentus, bei dizainerių kurti vestuviniai drabužiai. Čia nagrinėjama, kaip aprangoje atsiskleidžia tradicijos ir mados kryptys tiek lietuviškoje, tiek europietiškoje madoje. Atskleidžiama kūrybinio darbo idėja, pristatomi jo atlikimo etapai. Taikoma tautinio kostiumo gamybos būdų ir ornamentikos sintezė vestuviniame ansamblyje. Atskleidžiamos lietuvių liaudies taikomojo meno, kaip tautiškumo ugdymo priemonės, panaudojimo galimybės technologijų pamokose. Šiame bakalauro darbe parodoma, kad nacionalinis kostiumas gali būti interpretuojamas šiuolaikiškai, kad tradicinė kultūra gali gyvuoti ir toliau vystytis bei pritapti šiuolaikinėje erdvėje ir visuomenėje. Darbo tekstą papildo spalvotos ir nespalvotos fotografijos ir iliustracijos, schemos, eskizai, projektai, brėžiniai, technologiniai brėžiniai. Darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos išvados, literatūros sąrašas ir priedai. / The topic of this bachelor thesis is synthesis of national costume producing techniques in contemporary wedding costume. The core of the problem is rising of the nationality. The main objective – to form and create positive view of young people to nationality in family, starting with wedding ceremony, trough the synthesis of national costume and contemporary wedding costume. This work reveals the role and meaning of the Lithuanian textile in wedding rituals, its purposes. Also ornamentation of national costume is analysed in detail and an overview of clothes, created by designers using ornamentation of traditional national costumes of various countries, and wedding costumes created by designers is presented. It analyses how traditions and trends of fashion are revealed in clothing of both Lithuanian and European vogue. It presents the idea of creative work and the steps of its implementation. Synthesis of national costume producing techniques and ornamentation in wedding costume is applied. It reveals possibilities of using Lithuanian folk art as a measure of forming national identity in technology classes. This thesis proves that national costume can be interpreted in a contemporary way and traditional culture can survive, develop and adapt to modern environment and society. Colourful and black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, sketches, drawings and technological drawings complement this work. In the end of the work conclusion, list of sources and... [to full text]

The Indian diaspora has now more than ever before exported the inhabitants of the sub-continent to very many countries in the world. They are presently to be found settled in far-off places like Alaska, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, the Unites States of America, England, Canada and elsewhere. By far the largest group that had emigrated under the tri-partite patronage of South Africa, India and Britain between 1860 and 1911 to South Africa were a mixture of Hindus, Christians and Muslims representing the four major Indian language groups of Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati. The indentured, in no small measure, played a significant part in drastically uplifting the economy of Natal as efficient and hardworking labourers in the sugarcane farms, the coalfields of Northern Natal and in the wattle farms of the mist belt of the Midlands of Natal. No doubt in some cases their working conditions were extremely trying and painfully difficult; but they triumphed. They were not willing to remain in their immigrant servitude. After their contract, as is now, patently well known that in about 140 years they have reached against all odds. They are world recognized in nearly all fields where human endeavour calls for the best. They have produced renounced academics and artisans and are visible wherever excellence is the benchmark. After 1994 they have integrated with ease within the South African plural society without abandoning their language, culture, traditions, belief systems, dietary habits and the distinct dress of the women in particular and the men in general. Undoubtedly their inborn patience and tolerance and the ability to change and adapt within a multi-religious and multi-ethical milieu is a humble credit to their forbearance. / Thesis (M. A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2003.