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Villegas, Megan A. "Last Rites." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1212086186.
Full textFerraro, Rosa. "Rites et construction de l'identité berbère. Les rites funéraires dans le contexte de l'évolution des formes traditionnelles du rite au Maroc." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0001/document.
Full textThis work is the result of a cross-search between Italy and Morocco, limited to one restricted geographical environment, namely, the city of Maddaloni in the region Campania, and the two provinces of Morocco, Beni Mellal and Khouribga, places from where comes the most of the Moroccan migrants who lives in southern Italy. The aim of the thesis was to understand aspects of Berber identity through rituals and funerary rituals in the migratory context
Munson, William Donald. "Rites of passage." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1124882.
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Nichols, Thomas Andrew. "Rites & Rituals." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1186071144.
Full textDechoz, Jacques. "Les Rites du suicide." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37612988s.
Full textDechoz, Jacques. "Les rites du suicide." Paris 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA010543.
Full textFields, Raina Lauren. "Last Rites for Uptown." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77480.
Full textMaster of Fine Arts
Petit, Pierre. "Rites familiaux, rites royaux: étude du système cérémoniel des Luba du Shaba, Zaïre." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212757.
Full textAlvarez, de Miranda Angel Sopena Henrique. "Le taureau : rites & jeux /." Portet-sur-Garonne : Loubatières, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39119005w.
Full textHubert, Ollivier. "Le rite institutionnalisé : la gestion des rites religieux par l'Église catholique du Québec, 1703-1851." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25422.pdf.
Full textKeiper, Vanessa [Verfasser]. "The Horses of Cormac McCarthy’s «All the Pretty Horses»: Rides and Rites of Passage / Vanessa Keiper." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1230718230/34.
Full textD'Souza, Valerie M. "The inculturated rites of the RCIA." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRoby, Karine. "Elections presidentielles : rites democratiques, traditions carnavalesques." Toulouse 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995TOU20093.
Full textIn traditional peasant societies, feast is seen as a traditional explosion : medieval carnival time set up the questioning of power and social order. Our modern societies turned down feast into a status of consumption time. Ethnologists, sociologists may wonder what the real feast has became. Nowadays, our democraties turn election campaigns into total feast : it's supported to have the one function proper to carnival in the past. Analogical comparaison between "ideal-type" carnival and presidential elections since 1974, pictures analysis and interviewes of journalists will enable to see election and its relation with media in a different way. If those two social phenomenous are characterized by the picture of an upside world, this picture also shows their differences : for election has lost its right side world. Feast is not the whole of election : if power plays a game, the countryside also get its states in motion
Wilkins, Ryan T. "The Influence of Israelite Temple Rites and Early Christian Esoteric Rites on the Development of Christian Baptism." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2908.
Full textPhillips, Diane. "Women's rites, representations of childbearing in film." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ37611.pdf.
Full textNichols, Bridget. "Liturgical hermeneutics : interpreting liturgical rites in performance." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5953/.
Full textVatin, Xavier. "Rites et musiques de possession à Bahia /." Paris ; Budapest ; Torino : l'Harmattan, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399975363.
Full textBibliogr. p. 221-229. Glossaire.
Nichols, Bridget. "Liturgical hermeneutics : interpreting liturgical rites in performance /." Frankfurt an Main ; New York ; Paris [etc.] : P. Lang, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37196131c.
Full textMansfield, Timothy Denton. "Water rites : a city stage for Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68235.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 66-67).
This thesis focuses on the design of a public theatre for the entire city of Boston, a "city stage." The intention is to explore through design the boundaries of an architectural setting for large scale performance art; one that could be enjoyed by the entire city at once. Further, the idea is to provide an architecture that supports the kinds of performance that might heighten not only the experience of what is conventionally known as "theatre", but would also transform our sense of scale in terms of the audience / performer relationship. In another sense, the theatre would serve as a focal point - a "public common" - in a harbor that has been sorely neglected. Today, Boston is in a rare position to reclaim its waterfront. Projects like the depression of the Central Artery and the harbor clean-up are opportunities to positively impact the waterfront environment. The "city stage" might serve as a beacon for the harbor and a place to enjoy what was once a forbidding edge.
by Timothy Denton Mansfield.
M.Arch.
Urlacher-Desmonts, Agathe. "Les émissions intimistes : rites de passage modernes ?" Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040287.
Full textRodet-Belarbi, Isabelle. "La faune à Argentomagus : élevage, artisanats, rites." Paris 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA010577.
Full textThe study of animal bones from the pits discovered in the roman town, at Entomagus, (Saint-Marcel, Indre), gives a lot of informations about the different species of animals and their morphology , the tendencies of breeding, the butcher's technics and the bone-work. It is possible with this investigation to difference the bones which are not separated during the carve of the animals, from the others which are deposed in the pits and are offerings. The horns are throwing out the work-shop but they are not offerings. The traces of the chopper's knocks on the bones indicate the butcher's technics in the roman period. The bones discovered in the pits around the temples and in the domestic refuse dumps are the same ones. It is impossible to find the function of the pits only with the investigation of the animal bones. The study gives a lot of new informations and with them, it is possible to definite again the names which are giving by the archeologist to the different pits: pits with offerings, ritual pits. .
Michel, Valérie. "Symboles et rites archai͏̈ques chez Paul Eluard." Montpellier 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1992MON30041.
Full textOpening with an analysis of poems published by paul eluard between 1924 and 1938, the work then proceeds with a linguistic study of metaphor mechanisms to end with a reconstruction of eluard's sources and models including the practice of collage and cadavre exquis. It appears that eluard's poems act and say their own genesis by recapturing symbols and developments usually revealed in the history of religions through initiation and cosmogony but equally alive in the surrealists' culture. Real fantasms of origin are identifiable throughout eluard's tendencies to choise such and such images, such and such syntaxic forms or to connect himself to such and such experiences : with eluard, semantic conflicts are in keeping with what images suggest whereas what is fomented and exhauced by the surrealist group will favour and shape the whole of it. A survey of eluard's evolution is all the more rewarding as the first images of social evil are clearly manifest in the most underrated images of origin
Meyers, Robert Vincent. "The competence of bishops' conferences in the praenotanda of the Rite of penance and the Rites of ordination." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHoward, Thomas M. "Rites of passage a paradigm for adolescent transformation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBerry, Janet Nesta. "Transforming rites : the practice of women's ritual making." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3479/.
Full textDe, Silvey Caitlin O'Brian. "Salvage rites making memory on a Montana homestead." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413821.
Full textRoby, Karine. "Le carnaval présidentiel : rites démocratiques et traditions carnavalesques /." Anglet : Atlantica, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38810359j.
Full textEn appendice, choix de dépêches AFP. Bibliogr. p. 267-281.
Park, Chang-Won. "Death rites in Korea : the Confucian-Christian interplay." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1336/.
Full textCorre, Nicolas. "Les «rites paradoxaux» dans la religion publique romaine." Paris, EPHE, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EPHE5024.
Full textThe bloody sacrifice enables communication between men and gods through an eatable intermediary. Although this pratcice is that the core of Roman piety, plenty of rites get away from it. Thus, scholars who studied the public Roman religion since the mid-ninetheenth century have distinguished bewteen the so-called magical rites and others labeled as more religious. Going with the recent re-examination of the notion of magic, such and opposition is vanishing, through there is no gain in clarity. Rites that do not fit exactly with the sacrifitial model (i. E. The Lupercalia, the Robigallia, the Cerealia, Tacita muta, the devotion, the human «sacrifices», etc. ) are vaguely qualified in recent studies as "odd", "strange", etc. , whitout deeper inquiry on the characteristic features of these ceremonies. This PhD tackles this taxonomic irresolution. As a heuristic model, we designate as paradocal rites those through which any living is separated from the profane world, whith more or less deviations from rites of the bloody sacrifice set as a doxa. In order to enlighten the meaning of such 'paradoxal' practices, we propose to use the "rites of passage" as the interpretative tool. Analysis of the diverse processes for passing from the human to the devine world drives towards a rational typology of these rites generally qualified as being strange. 1. Some rites stage interaction bewteen human and gods on the sacrificial model. 2. Others put a focus on the distance that has to part the two worlds. 3. Lastly , a third types of rites sets relationship between Rome and a marginal ʿElsewhere', whith the collaboration of gods
Auddino, Lionel. "Giuseppe Garibaldi : déconstruction d'un mythe : étude des rites." Nice, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NICE2014.
Full textIn the Garibaldi commemorative literature and art, from Italy's Unity to fascism, the story relating to the RedShirts' revolution reflects the existence of a modern political myth. That is to say a cosmogonical myth which attempted to ritually transmit a new vision of the world, and of which the intellectual middle-class preached. In whatever conceptions it appeared, the myth related a violent end of one world era followed by a new genesis, by a total new start thanks to a new messiah : Giuseppe Garibaldi. It explained with the passing Italian generations how, from a collective sacrifice, Italy and its line of descendants have begun to exist. Garibaldi, glorified as a secular father creator, reigned in all these conceptions so as to justify the political Unity and the liberal power which existed since 1860, and so as to stimulate or intensify Italian patriotic feelings. However, beyond its etiological function, this cosmogonical myth, which was raised to the rank of secular belief, took on another paradigmatic function. In the rituals, it peacefully taught to Italians the sacred code of social behaviour, asking them to abide by noble, civic and human virtues of Garibaldi. But, when the control of the secular religion fell into the hands of preachers more belligerent than pedagogic, the myth urged the Italians to copy the heroic, patriotic and warlike virtues of the father of their fatherland. The myth crystallized like that their dream of a new start obtainable by violence
Pop, Rodica. "Le mariage chez les Mongols : rites et textes." Paris, EPHE, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EPHE5005.
Full textThe present work describes the ceremonies which make up the long and complex ritual of marriage, in their successive order, in several Mongolian ethnic groups. The rituals presentation is accompanied by the translation of texts, inseparable from these rites. Far from being just ornamental, the pronunciation of these rituals words (more or less complex) is indispensable to the ritual’s fulfilment. On the other hand, the parallels among several ethnic variations reflecting the different kinds of tradition among the Mongolian groups helps to emphasize the essential principles of a matrimonial alliance. The Mongolian marriage seals an alliance between two clans or lineages and its aim is the lineage perpetuation (duty towards the ancestors) and the strengthening of the social links (duty towards the society or the State). The matrimonial alliance is a social, even “political” act aimed at the reinforcement of the social tissue through the relations among the allies and the group’s and the whole nation’s prosperity through the couple’s fertility. The marriage ritual is governed by a complex of customs, of practices and of prohibitions which lean on some essential principles: the respect of the exogamy, the astrological compatibility, the patrilocality, all these, within the patrilineal framework, of the Mongolian society. The present work is a selected gathering of materials that are scattered and often difficult to find, related to the marriage rituals and ceremonies, such as the Mongolian folklorists have noted and published from the oral tradition. The richness and the diversity of the material known under the generic term of “marriage literature” published over the past fifteen years does not permit an exhaustive presentation and we have had to make a selection. The materials used here are presented in abstract form when rituals or ritual gesture are described and in transcription and translation when oral pieces are concerned. In this way, this ensemble of texts, selected in order to be representative, has became accessible in a Western language
Kantiebo, Rosalie. "Musiques, corps et objets dans les rites et dans les danses des Sara du sud Tchad : Le rite initiatique Yondo." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MNHN0038.
Full textSouls, bodies and objects in the Yondo initiation rite is a subject that vests the foundation of the person by intervening states of being of the individual being initiated in initiation sites. It is thus that we retain as main boundary bodies: Ndoo (the neophyte at the time of initiation), the king and the newborn. The corporal dimension and the notion of personhood is the heart of the Yondo rite that functions and takes all of its meaning in relation to the globality of the basis of the things of life since its inception. Time and spaces are analyzed and the unfurling of the analysis takes into account the displacement of the neophyte in space and time. The transformations that impose themselves on him all during his initiation path in this time-space declared bitter from the non-temporal and situate themselves within (on the inside of) the initiate. The initiate, being the main space, mediates by himself for his freedom and his ultimate elevation. The path of the Ndoo in space circumscribes a circular scheme (diagram) that inscribes itself by convergent movements then divergent ones, movements that denote on the one hand an action of unification and osmosis then, on the other hand an action of individuation. It is by way of music and dance that all the relations are positioned during the time of initiation. The different relationships are therefore studied through the different rituals that are dedicated to it. The definition of the body as being music and instrument at the same time is proclaimed by the Ndoo (initiates to Yondo) themselves. The music that represents the modulus body reveals it in different apparitions like a mutant, a being capable of taking divers forms. Grace, beauty, suppleness attest to the sublime and the perfection sought by the initiates as much in their loosening their hips and in the presentation of their being: the purple color radiating from their body, fire and light, represent respectively the kaolin and the oil, symbols of their elevation towards non-temporality. Re-appropriation and appropriation to which Yondo is subject or made object in modern structures such as politics and religion. Then we tackle the foundation of Yondo. We make a case for the different uses that are current today, and the variations and stereotypes that the rite has also become a focal point the question of pain and suffering is also raised. Then we question about the notion of the individual and society in light of Yondo. Finally, is Yondo a religion? In spite of the gestures and religious acts that happen during the initiation rites, Yondo closely resembles a rigorously structured philosophy, but is it a religion ?
Hasan, Shah M. "Leading rites : an examination of ritualization in faculty leadership /." View abstract, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3191704.
Full textWright, Melisa. "Rites vs. rights, the case of female genital mutilation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0004/MQ45385.pdf.
Full textSmith, Barbara Christine. "'Mimicking bears' for Artemis : girls' maturation rites in Attika." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407339.
Full textAvrilleau, Haguère Bonnaud-Antignac Angélique. "Deuil et maternité l'importance des rites et de l'accompagnement /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://castore.univ-nantes.fr/castore/GetOAIRef?idDoc=59641.
Full textTupman, Tracy Ward. "Theatre magick Aleister Crowley and the Rites of Eleusis /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054580207.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 355 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
Hsu, Yun-Che. "The symbolism of blood in Levitical rites and sacrifices." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textZuraw, John A. "Ecclesiastical funeral rites a change in law and perspective /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWu, Rong Le. "Les rites et les rapports humains dans le Xunzi." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070014.
Full textThe rite represents the principal thinking of Xunzi (clyca 313-238 av. J. -c. ). For this philosopher, a disciple of Confucius, the rite contains several meanings. The on1y source that allows us to understand his thinking is his work, Xunzi. This text, which represent the total program to establish the concord, aims to convince a wise king. Precisely, application of rite is the way to realize Xunzi's political dream - unification of the world. In this way, the relation which the significations of rite concern with human-being, society and country inscribe the process for the wise king to establish harmony. To prove the capacity of rites in the harmonization of world, it is therefore necessary to explain how the significations of rite can show their usefulness. Nevertheless, if it is easy to note that a Chinese word contains several meanings, for instance, the rite, in Chinese works, it remains difficult to find the explanations for these meanings. This is not surprising as ideology does not belong to the Chinese culture, but to Western culture. Finally, the research of these two cultures allows us to understand the thinking of Xunzi. It means that the study of Western culture is useful for understanding Chinese culture, and, the communication of both cultures seems possible even in Sinology. This is an important point that most sinologists have been unaware of up to now, and which we hope to show in our thesis. Apart from the Xunzi's thought, we also try to explain the general concept of rites in Chinese culture. For some people view Chinese rites as magical acts, customs and manners. As a result, the formal act describes the Chinese rites, and the religion is its synonym. But, if we say that the rite represents Chinese culture and that the form of cult is one of part of the Chinese rite, Chinese culture is anyway distinguished by the content of rite, not its form. Accompanying the evolution of history, the rite exists, gives life to the Chinese and constitutes his past, especially by its solid content. Therefore, we study at the same time the history of Chinese rite, its meanings, definition and the principals for its elaboration. This has not been studied up to now
Echergui, Fouzia. "Les aréopages soufis au Maroc d'aujourd'hui : rites et mœurs." Paris 5, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA05H007.
Full textThrough the sociological observation of a mystic environment, we dreaded a comparative study, in which we examined what makes closer or differentiates the ritual meetings of some brotherhoods soufi in the northeast of Morocco. Oujda constituted a representative sample with branches of the brotherhoods chadilia, kadiria and gnawia. The headmaster's status in these meetings is evaluated by three symbolic criteria : a genealogy, the charisma and a skill in the esoteric and exoteric sciences. Concerning this last point, the intellectual knowledge of the headmaster rests on studies of Sunna and the Koran, generates two managers models of meetings (majma'), namely a committed model and the other one non-engaged. The majma' is a social organization and a way to build the culture'time and body of the soufi. It is inseparable of the sociology of the customs. The collective behavior within the majma' is limited by an outline which presents the historic and cultural identity of the headmaster and the member. The duties and the rights of the relation which is established between the headmaster and his follower is defined by traditions and customs of the society, lived differently according to their commitment. The follower makes an irrational and symbolic journey. This imaginary allows to understand concretely the coherence of majma' committed and non-engaged with the society and the universe
Qiao, Jing. "La réforme de l'administration chinoise face aux rites confucéens." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010298.
Full textSharma, Bal Krishna. "Funerary rites in Nepal : cremation, burial and Christian identity." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732966.
Full textRossi, Walter R. "The use of "Ritual Church sui iuris" in canons 111 and 112 of the 1983 Code of canon law." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMandret-Degeilh, Antoine. "Gouverner par le rite : socio-histoire des rites d’institution municipaux autour de la parenté en France, au miroir de la situation en Allemagne (1789-1989)." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015IEPP0039/document.
Full textThis dissertation deals with French municipal rites of institution related to kinhood – civil wedding, civil baptism, marriage anniversaries, Mother’s Day and virginal feasts – and aims to trace back their history since the French revolution. It is based on primary sources collected in three cities (Bobigny, Nice and Göttingen), as well as at the central administration, complemented by secondary sources. Moreover, it follows an ethnographic, socio-historical and comparative approach (referring to the German situation).This research identifies three main steps: first, the invention of these rites as the result of the secularization of catholic rites, from the French revolution to the 1960’s with the interwar-period as a turning point. Second, the liberalization of these rites occurring in the 1970’s and 1980’s, and finally, their individualization in the following decades, which constitutes the starting question of the research. Besides, this dissertation shows the local and national specificities of these rites, as well as the temporal and geographical diversity of the moral figures these rites are founded on, despite their steady features (they are above all feminine and recur to the registers of both kinhood and citizenship). Finally, this dissertation voices the plasticity of municipal rites of kinhood, such as illustrated by the diversity of bottom-up uses (mode of collective action, individual political action, practice focused on the sole question of kinhood, etc.), as well as top-down uses (policy instruments, tools of legitimization, clientelism, etc.) of these rites
Evans, Michele. "Ritual and rites of passage, a gentle enfolding of self." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0004/MQ45958.pdf.
Full textDumézil, Georges Leclercq-Neveu Bernadette. "Le crime des Lemniennes : rites et légendes du monde égéen /." Paris : Macula, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370270651.
Full textN'Gindu, Lukusa. "Règles et rites matrimoniaux en milieu traditionnel luluwa du Zaïre." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375950128.
Full textReimer, Andy. "Divine healing rites in the New Testament diversity and unity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLambert-Gimey, Alexandra. "Adolescence en délinquance et rites de passage en Nouvelle–Calédonie." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20006.
Full textIn the heart of the Pacific Ocean, the archipelago known as New Caledonia is experiencing a significant increase in crime since the 2000s, according to information provided by police in Nouméa, the capital city. Its population is relatively young. Those who are less than thirty years old represent approximately half the population. In this multicultural country, modernity and ancestral tradition coexist for some indigenous ethnic groups. Our study aims to identify the characteristics of adolescent delinquency in New Caledonia, addressing its nature and origins. Thus we seek to highlight the factors that have prevailed which created this circumstance. In particular, our research will examine the relationship between delinquency and cultural factors, and the existing links between the quest for ethnic identity and belonging to emerging gangs.For our study, we relied on a sample of 331 adolescents drawn from two groups: conventional youth, and young offenders. All were subjected to the same questionnaire regarding their ethnic identity, their degree of attachment to their gang, their cultural practices, as well as their professed delinquency. Regarding the offenders, our data collection also relied on clinical interviews, as well as the results of their psychometric tests. The findings will focus respectively on quantitative data and qualitative analyses