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Imagery, Ritual, and Birth

- Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
Af: Anna M. Hennessey Engelsk Hardback

Imagery, Ritual, and Birth

- Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
Af: Anna M. Hennessey Engelsk Hardback
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Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, overshadowed by a scholarly focus on death. This book explores how imagery is used ritualistically in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture. Objects central to the book’s study include religious figurines, paintings about birth, and other items representative of pregnancy, crowning, or giving birth that have an historical or original meaning connected to religion. Contemporary artists are also creating new art in which they represent birth and mothering as nonreligious events that are sacred or divine. Framed through the concept of social ontology, which examines the nature of the social world and studies how people create meaning out of the various objects, images, and processes that make up human social life, the book theorizes a social ontology of birth, focusing on how the meaning of imagery undergoes metamorphosis between the spheres of religion, secularity, nonreligion, and the sacred when used during birth as a rite of passage. Included in the study are more than thirty images of birth, some of which have never been written about before.
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Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, overshadowed by a scholarly focus on death. This book explores how imagery is used ritualistically in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture. Objects central to the book’s study include religious figurines, paintings about birth, and other items representative of pregnancy, crowning, or giving birth that have an historical or original meaning connected to religion. Contemporary artists are also creating new art in which they represent birth and mothering as nonreligious events that are sacred or divine. Framed through the concept of social ontology, which examines the nature of the social world and studies how people create meaning out of the various objects, images, and processes that make up human social life, the book theorizes a social ontology of birth, focusing on how the meaning of imagery undergoes metamorphosis between the spheres of religion, secularity, nonreligion, and the sacred when used during birth as a rite of passage. Included in the study are more than thirty images of birth, some of which have never been written about before.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 218
ISBN-13: 9781498548731
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1498548733
Udg. Dato: 11 dec 2018
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 11 dec 2018
Forfatter(e): Anna M. Hennessey
Forfatter(e) Anna M. Hennessey


Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger


ISBN-13 9781498548731


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 218


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 235mm


Højde 160mm


Udg. Dato 11 dec 2018


Oplagsdato 11 dec 2018


Forlag Lexington Books