Not Etched in Stone: Essays on Ritual Memory, Soul, and SocietyMarie A. Conn, Therese Benedict McGuire The essays presented by Professors Marie A. Conn and Th r se 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. Chapters topics include: -Water as a vehicle for ritual memory from the earliest days of human history to the present-day. -An investigation of the aesthetic principles of the Middle Ages up to the Gothic styles of cathedrals in North America. -Julian of Norwich, the famous cloistress, walled in by stone in comparison to Etty Hillesum, a WWII-era mystic, whose small desk used to write her revealing diaries became her stone cloister cell. -The Irish, water, and stone in Finnegan's Wake. -Warming the "stone heart" of a child pummeled by the foster care system. -The lack of clean water that contributes to wide-spread disease. -Group behavior and the eventualities of war through stone-like, (uncooperative and hardened) psychological states. |
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... Stonehenge Art and religion are the two great mirrors of any civilization , and in the absence of any clear knowledge of them one is lost . Yet there broods over Neolithic Britain a slightly chilling aura of an intensely practical ...
... Stonehenge Art and religion are the two great mirrors of any civilization , and in the absence of any clear knowledge of them one is lost . Yet there broods over Neolithic Britain a slightly chilling aura of an intensely practical ...
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... Stonehenge a scientific observatory for the prediction of solar and lunar events . He explains his theory : " We build electronic computers , so the an- cients must have built rude prototypes anticipating our own concern with science ...
... Stonehenge a scientific observatory for the prediction of solar and lunar events . He explains his theory : " We build electronic computers , so the an- cients must have built rude prototypes anticipating our own concern with science ...
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... Stonehenge , Verona : Arnoldo Mandadori Editore , 1980 , 18 . 15. Leon E. Stover and Bruce King , Stonehenge : The Indo - European Heritage , Chi- cago : Nelson - Hall , Inc. , Publishers , 1979 , 181 . 16. Michael Drayton , cited in ...
... Stonehenge , Verona : Arnoldo Mandadori Editore , 1980 , 18 . 15. Leon E. Stover and Bruce King , Stonehenge : The Indo - European Heritage , Chi- cago : Nelson - Hall , Inc. , Publishers , 1979 , 181 . 16. Michael Drayton , cited in ...
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