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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... animals and humans , while Prometheus would put on the finishing touches . But Epimetheus made the animals first and , in so doing , used up all the gifts the gods had given them , gifts of speed , strength , fur , feathers , and so on ...
... animals and humans , while Prometheus would put on the finishing touches . But Epimetheus made the animals first and , in so doing , used up all the gifts the gods had given them , gifts of speed , strength , fur , feathers , and so on ...
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... animals are typically social , with a wide variety of natural groupings , it is rare for one group to attack another , particularly of its own species . Lorenz noted there there is an inhibition that predators such as wolves or hawks ...
... animals are typically social , with a wide variety of natural groupings , it is rare for one group to attack another , particularly of its own species . Lorenz noted there there is an inhibition that predators such as wolves or hawks ...
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... animal world in showing a capabil- ity of killing its own species , it is perhaps unique in the frightening scale at which it has done so . Most animal fights take place between pairs of animals and not groups . In many successful ...
... animal world in showing a capabil- ity of killing its own species , it is perhaps unique in the frightening scale at which it has done so . Most animal fights take place between pairs of animals and not groups . In many successful ...
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