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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... water and stone , seeking to discover why they have for millennia been used as vehicles of ritual memory . Other examples of the use of water and stone in contemporary memorials both in the United States and abroad will then be explored .
... water and stone , seeking to discover why they have for millennia been used as vehicles of ritual memory . Other examples of the use of water and stone in contemporary memorials both in the United States and abroad will then be explored .
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... water is also used biblically to express grief ( Jer . 9 : 1 , 18 ; Ps . 119 : 136 ) . A misfortune of great magnitude , nearly impossible to comprehend , was likened to water ( Lam . 3:54 ; Ps . 69 : 2 ; 124 : 4-5 ) . The constant flow ...
... water is also used biblically to express grief ( Jer . 9 : 1 , 18 ; Ps . 119 : 136 ) . A misfortune of great magnitude , nearly impossible to comprehend , was likened to water ( Lam . 3:54 ; Ps . 69 : 2 ; 124 : 4-5 ) . The constant flow ...
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... stone and water , thus , naturally recur throughout Irish literary history , but the alternation between water and stone takes on added sig- nificance in literary representations of Ireland's quest for national identity — its struggle ...
... stone and water , thus , naturally recur throughout Irish literary history , but the alternation between water and stone takes on added sig- nificance in literary representations of Ireland's quest for national identity — its struggle ...
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