The Burning Saints : Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria /
The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve processions, music, dancing, animal sacrifices, and culminate in an electrifying fire-walking ritual. Ca...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2014.
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Colección: | Religion, cognition and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Tradition in the making; 3. The ethnographic setting; 4. Fire- walking in Agia Eleni; 5. Knowledge and revelation among the Anastenaria; 6. Ritual and mind; 7. Costly rituals; 8. Arousal, emotion and motivation; 9. The physiology of high-arousal rituals; 10. Putting it all together; Notes; Bibliography; Index.