The archaeology of religion and ritual is a growing field of study within archaeology that applies ideas from religious studies, theory and methods, anthropological...

Anders (October 2011). "Old Norse and Germanic Religion". In Insoll, Timothy (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion. Oxford...

distinction between the sacred and the profane was considered by Émile Durkheim to be central to the social reality of human religion. The term profane originates...

1987. The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic. London, Guild Publishing. Versnel, H. S. 1991. “Some Reflections on the Relationship Magic-Religion.” Numen 38...

Vedic religion, "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure of cosmic, worldly, human and ritual events"...

In Bakongo religion, the earth and moon goddess Nzambici is the female counterpart of the sun god Nzambi Mpungu. Metztli, Coyolxauhqui and Tēcciztēcatl...

terms of functionalism. She defined religion through the lens of ritual. In her most famous book, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution...

or ritual magic from stage magic. In modern occultism and neopagan religions, many self-described magicians and witches regularly practice ritual magic...

Myth and ritual are two central components of religious practice. Although myth and ritual are commonly united as parts of religion, the exact relationship...

(2021-10-21). Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom: Ritual Forms, Material Display...

called an initiate. William Ian Miller notes the role of ritual humiliation in comic ordering and testing. Mircea Eliade discussed initiation as a principal...

Computational archaeology Dendrochronology Geoarchaeology Isotope analysis Palynology Radiocarbon dating Zooarchaeology Archaeology of religion and ritual Archaeology...

(Phoenicia and its colonies), and Sinology (China). Archaeology of religion and ritual Archaeomusicology Biblical archaeology – Archaeological sub-discipline...

region north of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales to southern Queensland. It was then adopted broadly to describe similar ritual sites and the ceremonies...

Archaeology of religion and ritual Definition of religion Elite religion – Form of a religion the leaders deem official Emic and etic – Two kinds of anthropologic...

folk religion involves necromancy in seeking blessing from dead ancestors through ritual displays of filial piety. The oldest literary account of necromancy...

its "religion", but not for the reasons advanced by Bosman, the Enlightenment thinkers, and Hegel. The irrationally "animate" character of the ritual system's...

The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods is an archaeological study focusing on the early development of Hinduism within...

evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, and cross-cultural...

access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination...

commerce, and religion. Augurs sought the divine will regarding any proposed course of action which might affect Rome's pax, fortuna, and salus (peace...

also used to refer to a religion not practiced by the majority of a given society regardless of whether the prevailing religion contains alleged superstitions...

scientific techniques to archaeology Archaeology and racism Archaeology of religion and ritual Archival research – Type of research using evidence from...

exploration, archaeological materials, museum collections, enduring customs, language, and place names. The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious...

complex and sophisticated reading of ritual, religion and lifestyle, Douglas challenged Western ideas of pollution and clarified how context and social...

Island, in Michigan, was the home of Gitche Manitou, and some Anishinaabeg tribes would make pilgrimages there for rituals devoted to the spirit. Other Anishinaabe...

artifact of comparative religion. Paul Tillich uses transtheistic in The Courage to Be (1952), as an aspect of Stoicism. Tillich stated that Stoicism and Neo-Stoicism...

work of love: Awareness and expressions of emotion in a Borneo healing ritual". In James J. Fox (ed.). Expressions of Austronesian Thought and Emotions...

A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant...

language of the gods, or, in monotheism, the language of God (or angels), is the concept of a mystical or divine proto-language, which predates and supersedes...