Displaying Demons Telle, Kari
Asian ethnology,
03/2023, Letnik:
82, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
In the Hindu Balinese imagination, demons (buta kala) are ambiguous figures of the crossroads. Across Indonesia, the display of giant demon puppets (ogohogoh) has increasingly become part of the ...lunar Hindu New Year celebrations. Drawing on fieldwork among the Balinese minority on the island of Lombok, I argue that the display of demon puppets permits Hindu Balinese youth to unleash “wild” demonic forces. Building on Kaja M. McGowan’s (2008) notion of Balinese “internal aesthetics,” I propose that the puppets serve as potential sites or receptacles for the demonic. Just as each demon puppet mobilizes a display of fun and volatility, so it provokes passions and frequently becomes embroiled in conflict. Demon puppets are designed to amuse and dazzle by their outrageous appearance, yet they unsettle the porous boundaries between “religion” and “entertainment.” By examining the politics surrounding the annual ogoh-ogoh procession in Cakranegara, I show that their display acquires urgency in a multireligious context.
THE TRINITARIAN PROCESSIONS MULLINS, R. T.
Roczniki filozoficzne,
2023, Letnik:
71, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
William Hasker and I have a friendly disagreement over the doctrine of the Trinity. We both reject classical theistic attributes like divine timelessness and divine simplicity. Instead, we affirm ...that God is temporal and unified. Further, we reject so-called Latin models of the Trinity, and prefer social models of the Trinity. Where we disagree is over the doctrine of the processions of the Trinitarian persons. In this essay, I articulate some problems for the doctrine of the processions.
William Hasker i ja toczymy przyjacielski spór w kwestii doktryny Trójcy. Obaj odrzucamy atrybuty przyjmowane w ramach klasycznego teizmu, takie jak boska bezczasowość i boska prostota. W zamian przyjmujemy, że Bóg jest czasowy i zunifikowany. Ponadto, odrzucamy tzw. łacińskie modele Trójcy, preferując modele społeczne. Nie zgadzamy się natomiast w sprawie doktryny pochodzenia osób trynitarnych. W tym eseju przedstawiam niektóre problemy, przed jakimi staje doktryna pochodzenia.
The article deals with the main regularities of the formation and evolution of the tradition of making processions in the European North of Russia. It is revealed that by the end of the 18th century ...there was a stable tradition of organizing church processions. Documents show that processions were performed in connection with holidays and other significant events of everyday peasant life, the past of confessional communities. The participation of state bodies in the processions of the cross was taken into account in the protection of law and order. On the part of the Church authorities, only the collection of statistical information on processions of the cross is noted.
What is known as religious tourism has experienced spectacular growth in Spain in recent years. To highlight some aspects of the relationship between tourism and religious practices during Holy Week, ...this paper describes some occurrences involving processions and itineraries, understanding these itineraries to be social ways of creating symbolic spaces within the city layout. The paper analyses the case of a mature coastal tourist destinations in Southern Spain. There is general agreement among scholars that tourism produces commodification either through the commercialisation of culture by way of its recreation and inclusion in the category ‘heritage’ or through the invention of a tradition and / or spectacularization of specific cultural manifestations such as Holy Week. However, this paper reveals another reality that, due to the predominance of ideas of commercialisation and authenticity in the social sciences discourse, this type of activity often does not receive the attention it deserves. The participant observation in this work shows the persistence of personal, intimate and contemplative ways of experiencing religion or popular Catholicism even in tourism contexts. Far from the more theatrical versions of brotherhood and scenography in tourism territories, the simple everyday forms of religiosity are still prevalent in more hidden corners, where visitors and tourists do not go.
This article proposes a reflection on the interaction between sacred imagery and believers in the Holy Week processions in Tunja, a city of colonial origin in central Colombia. The sacred imagery in ...Tunja and its processional exaltation constitute the faith practices and social organization of the brotherhoods of Nazarenes. These are bearers of a tradition of faith and penitence in which the imagery they carry publicly on their shoulders exalt fulfills a function of representation, identification, and social interaction. The article analyzes the forms and scope of this integral and mimetic relationship between people and images, and comes to consider the meanings of these practices in the processes of faith and social order. To this end, we used ethnographic experience accompanied by semi-structured interviews, following the thread of informal conversations. A systematic monitoring of worship activities was undertaken, taking part in the Holy Week processions organized by the Society of Nazarenes of Tunja in 2019. The work concludes that sacred images identify, communicate, and create practices of memory and affirmation that produce ways of being, maintaining cultural and devotional practices over time. As a result, the Nazarenes gain recognition and social valuation beyond the religious scene.
The doctrine of the processions of the Son and the Holy Spirit from the Father, long an integral part of the trinitarian tradition, has recently been challenged by a number of philosophers and ...theologians, as is shown in the preceding article by Ryan Mullins. In this reply I speak briefly of the place of the doctrine in tradition. I then review biblical evidence supporting the doctrine, and provide a logical analysis which shows that the doctrine is coherent and has the resources to meet the challenges that have been raised against it.
Doktryna pochodzenia Syna i Ducha Świętego od Ojca, od dawna stanowiąca istotny składnik tradycji trynitarnej, została ostatnio zakwestionowana przez niektórych filozofów i teologów, czego przykładem jest zamieszczony w tym numerze artykuł Ryana Mullinsa. W odpowiedzi omawiam pokrótce miejsce, jakie zajmuje w ramach tradycji doktryna pochodzenia. Następnie przytaczam dane biblijne na rzecz tej doktryny, a także przedstawiam analizę logiczną, która pokazuje, że doktryna ta jest wewnętrznie spójna i może uniknąć stawianych jej zarzutów.
Alors que les apparitions publiques des religieuses cloîtrées se limitaient dans l’Espagne tridentine à leur transfert entre couvents et se caractérisaient par une discrétion extrême, le cas des ...religieuses du monastère madrilène de la Encarnación déroge à cette règle. Cette étude consiste à s’interroger sur les fondements de l’intimité de ces moniales afin de déterminer son expression, son appropriation spatiale au sein d’un lieu caché, préservé, celui du couvent, qui à son tour s’extériorise et se donne à voir lors de manifestations publiques toujours plus fastueuses. Comment les religieuses parviennent-elles à exprimer leur présence tout en manifestant publiquement la force de leur intimité ? Ce paradoxe qui met en scène l’intime tout en le circonscrivant et où se mêlent visibilité et invisibilité ne représente-t-il pas une volonté de la Couronne et des moniales d’asseoir leur prestige et d’imposer ce monastère comme la fondation royale madrilène par antonomase au XVIIe siècle ?
This paper proposes the notion of ReligioCity as an analytical category to account for religious urbanism and urban influences on religion(s). This theoretical notion allows us to explore the ways ...religion and urban space are transformed together by current socio-political processes, but also to examine the ways the city’s landscape encompasses new expressions of religious materiality in the urban environment. Taking Acre, a small multi-religious and multi-ethnic city in the north of Israel the paper explores religious processions, parades, and festivities as public rituals which encompass ways of being in the city and of taking temporary control of specific city spaces while engaging with urban infrastructures. In what ways these spatial religious manifestations are dictated by urban infrastructures and at the same time influence the city and how they serve as forms of being in the city for participants? The argument is that these religious manifestations and spatializations are ways of placing religion as an identity marker, with the possibility of sustaining, projecting or even reinventing a sense of self and community in the changing landscape of cities.
•This study introduces the concept of ReligiCity as a way to account for the interconnectivity and reflexive relations between city and religion.•ReligioCity is offered as a concept for thinking through and appreciating the growing influence of religion(s) in cities worldwide. ReligioCity is not as a one size fits all cities but rather a place base dynamic notion.•The study follows processions and the interactions with city's landscape of different denominations and the differential engagement with urban infrastructure therein.•Processions are theorized as ways of spatializing religion(s) as part of place-making and taking place within everyday city life.•Contextualizing ReligioCity through the case study of Acre, a small size multi religious city in the north of Israel.
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