This study discloses Shinto’s experiential and existential significance and aims to articulate Shinto’s sacred objective. It shows that Shinto, by way of experience, communicates being in the world with nature and with others as a sacred objective. This suggests that Shinto, in communicating its objective, appeals to the emotions more so than to the intellect; and that Shinto’s sacred objective does not transcend the natural world of both nature and everyday affairs. This study pursues this goal by showing the experiential and existential dimensions of the three primary features of Shinto: it shows how kami (or kami-ness) is thought of as an awe producing quality of being/s that are mostly associated with the natural world; how Shinto shrines’ aesthetics and atmosphere are thought to evoke a feeling of the natural world’s sacredness; and how festivals are thought to be ecstatic and effervescent occasions that regenerate an affirmation of being in the world with others. Though this study does not employ a strict methodological approach—insofar as the conclusions herein are based primarily on literature review—it was motivated by an existential outlook on the study of religion and assumes that the term “religion” refers primarily to an existential phenomenon that pertains not necessarily to socio-historical institutions but to a way of being in the world.

Univ., Diss. (rev.)--Princeton, 1973.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Geography. / Electronic thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-118). Also available in print ed.

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A pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a relação entre o devoto e o santo no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos, em Paudalho-PE, buscando identificar as trocas simbólicas nas manifestações de devoções populares. A fundamentação foi construída a partir das obras de Pierre Bourdieu, Alberto Beckhauser, João de Deus Gois, Eduardo Hoornaert, Faustino Teixeira e Renata Menezes, Sylvana Brandão, entre outros. Do ponto de vista metodológico, considera-se que o caminho seguido foi a abordagem fenomenológica utilizando bibliografia especializada nos estudos da religiosidade popular para compreender os conceitos relativos ao tema, entre a devoção aos santos, os santuários, religião e religiosidade popular, catolicismo santoral e turismo religioso. A pesquisa exploratória descritiva foi utilizada para investigar a relação das trocas simbólicas relativas à promessas, milagres e ex-votos entre os devotos de São Severino do Ramos, no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos, em Paudalho-PE, à luz da noção de que toda busca do sagrado tem como ponto de partida necessidades humanas inadiáveis, bem como a gratidão por tais necessidades terem sido atendidas. O trabalho é composto por três capítulos sendo que o primeiro deles contextualiza sobre a devoção aos santos no decorrer da história, abordando questões sobre a origem; a devoção aos santos no Brasil; a devoção a São Severino do Ramos e o santuário que leva seu nome em Paudalho-PE. O segundo capítulo traz os conceitos relativos ao tema entre religião e interfaces com a religiosidade popular; religiosidade popular e catolicismo santoral; religiosidade popular e turismo religioso. O terceiro aborda acerca das manifestações religiosas e trocas simbólicas no Santuário de São Severino do Ramos trazendo os resultados da pesquisa. A partir da análise, buscou-se compreender o fenômeno religioso que se dá naquela localidade para, posteriormente, apresentar as considerações finais e proposições sobre o tema para, desta forma, contribuir com o estudo sobre a religiosidade do povo nordestino e, por conseguinte, colaborar para a produção de um saber de caráter interdisciplinar, tão próprio do campo epistemológico das Ciências da Religião. / The research aimed to analyze the relationship between the devotee and the holy Shrine of St. Severino Ramos in Paudalho-PE, seeking to identify the symbolic exchanges in manifestations of popular devotions. The foundation was built from the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Alberto Beckhauser, João de Deus Gois, Eduardo Hoornaert, Faustino Menezes and Renata Teixeira, Sylvana Brandão, among others. From the methodological point of view, it is considered that the path followed was a phenomenological approach using specialized bibliography of popular religiosity in studies to understand the concepts related to the topic, between devotion to the saints, shrines, religion and popular religion, Catholicism and sanctoral religious tourism. A descriptive exploratory survey was used to investigate the relationship of symbolic exchanges on promises, miracles and votive among devotees of San Severino Ramos, at the Shrine of St. Severino Ramos in Paudalho-PE, in the light of the notion that all search for the sacred has as starting point urgent human needs, as well as gratitude for such needs have been met. The work consists of three chapters with the first contextualizes them on devotion to the saints throughout history, addressing questions about the origin; devotion to the saints in Brazil; devotion to St. Severino Ramos and sanctuary that bears his name in Paudalho-PE. The second chapter covers the concepts related to the theme of religion and interfaces with the popular religion, popular religion and Catholicism sanctoral; popular religiosity and religious tourism. The third focuses on the religious manifestations and symbolic exchanges at the Shrine of St. Severino Ramos bringing the search results. From the analysis, we sought to understand the religious phenomenon that occurs in that area to subsequently submit final comments and proposals on the issue to thereby contribute to the study of the religiosity of the northeastern people and therefore collaborate to produce a knowledge of interdisciplinary nature of the field itself as epistemological Sciences of Religion.

This dissertation on "Archaeology and the Israelite Cult" covers a period of ca. I 000 years, dating from the time of the Hebrew patriarchs ca.l950 B.C.E. to the end of the monarchy which is given as ca. 950 B.C.E. The archaeological findings are related to five significant and major excavation sites in Palestine which have been found to embrace the time span under consideration and point in many ways to the practice of the Israelite or Canaanite cult. These five sites are:- a) The Bull Site b) Kuntillet Ajrud c) The Fortress- Sanctuary at Arad d) Shechem e) Megiddo The writings of the Israelite cult are scant and commence mainly with the patriarchs. The time of Abraham and his recognition of a monolatrous god. The beginning of the complex Y ahwistic cult introduced by Moses in the Sinai Desert, following Israelite escape from Egypt. The Israelite cultic practices, which are now considered to be syncrestic, are discussed where they relate to biblical texts and archaeological findings of confirmation. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Studies)

This dissertation on "Archaeology and the Israelite Cult" covers a period of ca. I 000 years, dating from the time of the Hebrew patriarchs ca.l950 B.C.E. to the end of the monarchy which is given as ca. 950 B.C.E. The archaeological findings are related to five significant and major excavation sites in Palestine which have been found to embrace the time span under consideration and point in many ways to the practice of the Israelite or Canaanite cult. These five sites are:- a) The Bull Site b) Kuntillet Ajrud c) The Fortress- Sanctuary at Arad d) Shechem e) Megiddo The writings of the Israelite cult are scant and commence mainly with the patriarchs. The time of Abraham and his recognition of a monolatrous god. The beginning of the complex Y ahwistic cult introduced by Moses in the Sinai Desert, following Israelite escape from Egypt. The Israelite cultic practices, which are now considered to be syncrestic, are discussed where they relate to biblical texts and archaeological findings of confirmation. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Studies)

This thesis examines the changing form and function of non-funerary cult buildings in early Latial and Etruscan settlements in order to better describe and understand the advent of monumental temples in the archaeological record. It draws on a significant quantity of material excavated in the past forty years and developments in relevant theoretical frameworks to reconstruct the changing appearance of cult buildings from huts to shrines and temples (Chapters 2 to 4), and to place monumental examples within wider religious, topographical, and functional contexts (Chapters 5 to 7). This broader perspective allows a more accurate assessment of the extent to which monumental temples represent continuity and discontinuity with earlier religious architecture, and furthermore clarifies the respective roles of Latium and Etruria in the transformation of cult buildings into distinctive, prominent parts of the built environment. Although it is possible to find many different accounts of religious monumentalisation in existing scholarship, this thesis holds that traditional narratives no longer accurately reflect the archaeological evidence. It sets out a sequence of developments in which early religious architecture was a dynamic, rather than conservative, phenomenon. It demonstrates that temples were not the inevitable product of a natural progression from open-air votive deposition to monumentality, or simply an imported concept, but rather a deliberate response to the opportunities offered by an increasingly mobile Mediterranean population. It also contends that Latium played a more important role in formulating the characteristic components and functions of central Italic temples than previously thought. This thesis consequently offers a new account of early religious architecture in western central Italy as well as an alternative interpretation of its monumentalisation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

Lo studio ha come oggetto il materiale votivo dei santuari antichi dell’Abruzzo. Il primo capitolo ha analizzato l’origine e la diffusione dei votivi, le particolari definizioni che si applicano ai depositi votivi e le modalità dell’offerta. Nel secondo capitolo, dopo una breve storia degli studi, si sono affrontate le problematiche relative al contesto archeologico dell’Abruzzo, con particolare attenzione agli ethne degli Aequi, Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Praetuttii e con un breve quadro storico delle diverse fasi: età del ferro - IV secolo a.C, età repubblicana, prima età imperiale. Il terzo capitolo è dedicato alla metodologia applicata nella catalogazione dei luoghi di culto (Regesto), utilizzando una scheda-tipo in un Database relazionale, e alla metodologia adottata nella classificazione del materiale votivo. La ricerca ha privilegiato l’analisi di quattro depositi votivi tutt’ora parzialmente o completamente inediti. I capitoli 4, 5, 6 e 7 sono dedicati ai quattro casi: Monte Giove, Pescosansonesco, Castel di Ieri e Luco dei Marsi; a un’introduzione su ogni sito segue il catalogo del materiale. Infine nel capitolo 8 sono le conclusioni, con una sintesi relativa alla produzione e diffusione dei votivi e al loro legame con le pratiche cultuali. In appendice è il regesto dei luoghi di culto con la pubblicazione delle schede relative. / This study has been focused on votive objects which have been found in the ancient shrines of the Abruzzo region. As a first step I analized problems related to the origin and diffusion of votive deposits, to the different ways they can be defined and to the ways objects had been offered. The second chapter, after a short history of the previous studies, is dealing with the archaeological context of the Abruzzo during Preroman and Roman times, with a special attention devoted to the ancient populations who lived there: Aequi, Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Praetuttii and a historical frame of its chronological phases: Iron age-IV century b.C., Republican age, first Roman imperial age. The third chapter is devoted to the methodology applied in a complete catalouging of the cult places, by a relational Database (Regesto), and to the methodology used for classifying votives. My research focused on the analysis of four deposits, till now only partially edited or completely unpublished. The chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 are devoted to these four cases: Monte Giove, Pescosansonesco, Castel di Ieri e Luco dei Marsi; after an introduction on every site the catalogue of the material is following. Finally the chapter 8 is devoted to the conclusions, with a final synthesis about votive production and diffusion and about their relation with cults. In appendix the Regesto of cult places follows, with the relative files.