The Three Temples Pilgrimage
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The Three Temples Pilgrimage
The "Three Temples Pilgrimage" of Dali, in Chinese known as "Rao San Ling", is a festival of the Bai ethnic people who celebrate, in a ritual way, their unique traditions as a distinctive national group.Another significant if less recognized feature of this ceremony is its function as a fertility rite, preserving the remains among the rural Bai of a pre-modern set of kinship relations. These relations are characterized by a limited and ritualized recourse to practices of sexual promiscuity.The book contains a detailed narration of the events, based on field research, illustrated by 90 original color pictures.
The Three Temples
Author: Rachel Elior
language: en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date: 2004-03-01
Rachel Elior demonstrates convincingly how the Jewish mystical tradition crystallized in its early stages. She attributes its origins to priests prevented by circumstances from serving in the Temple: replacing the earthly Temple liturgically and ritually with a heavenly Merkavah and heavenly sanctuaries known as Heikhalot, they created a mystical world in which ministering angels replaced Temple priests, thereby giving Judaism a new spiritual focus.
International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies
Although research on contemporary pilgrimage has expanded considerably since the early 1990s, the conversation has largely been dominated by Anglophone researchers in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and religious studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Northern Europe. This volume challenges the hegemony of Anglophone scholarship by considering what can be learned from different national, linguistic, religious and disciplinary traditions, with the aim of fostering a global exchange of ideas. The chapters outline contributions made to the study of pilgrimage from a variety of international and methodological contexts and discuss what the ‘metropolis’ can learn from these diverse perspectives. While the Anglophone study of pilgrimage has largely been centred on and located within anthropological contexts, in many other linguistic and academic traditions, areas such as folk studies, ethnology and economics have been highly influential. Contributors show that in many traditions the study of ‘folk’ beliefs and practices (often marginalized within the Anglophone world) has been regarded as an important and central area which contributes widely to the understanding of religion in general, and pilgrimage, specifically. As several chapters in this book indicate, ‘folk’ based studies have played an important role in developing different methodological orientations in Poland, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Italy, Ireland and England. With a highly international focus, this interdisciplinary volume aims to introduce new approaches to the study of pilgrimage and to transcend the boundary between center and periphery in this emerging discipline.