Not Etched in Stone - Essays on Ritual Memory, Soul, and Society

Informationen zum Autor Marie A. Conn is Professor of Religious Studies at Chestnut Hill College. Thérèse McGuire , SSJ, is Professor of Art at Chestnut Hill College. Klappentext The essays presented by Professors Marie A. Conn and Thérèse McGuire examine stone and water as vehicles of ritual memory through the lenses of various disciplines. In seven concise yet revealing chapters, the authors examine instances throughout history and unbound by geography of stone and water as real or abstract objects that shape our lives, possibly without our notice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 "From the Rock Came Living Water: Stone and Water as Vehicles of Ritual Memory" Chapter 3 "Light on Sacred Stone" Chapter 4 "Stone of Norwich, Ashes of Aushcwitz: Julian of Norwich and Etty Hillesum Finding Wisdom by Praying Life Experience" Chapter 5 "The Water That Shattered Stone" Chapter 6 "Warming the Stone Heart of a Child in Foster Care" Chapter 7 "Remembering the Children: Changing Trends in Child and Infant Death Rates and in Memorialization" Chapter 8 "As Unyielding as Stone: Group Behavior and the Question of War" Part 9 Index

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• Authors: Marie A. Conn, Marie A. Mcguire Conn
• Assisted by: Marie A Conn (Editor), Marie A. Conn (Editor), Therese McGuire (Editor), Thérèse McGuire (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780761837022
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3702-2
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology