Traditional Festivals [2 Volumes]: A Multicultural Encyclopedia

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2005年6月29日 - 548 頁

This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization.
Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures.

From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.

  • More than 150 A-Z entries on the content and context of each festival, tracing its historical development and geographic variations, from Ashura (Islam) to Whitsuntide (Christianity)
  • 70 illustrations of festive rituals including photos of Belgium's Binche Carnival, Japan's Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Zulu Reed Dance
  • Tables of dates for the major feasts in Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as for the Chinese New Year
  • Calendar graph showing at a glance the relative places of all the festivals discussed in the seasonal cycle of a single year

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Akitu Mesopotamia
5
Apaturia Greece
13
Ashura Islam
19
M
23
Busk American Southeast
35
Candlemas Christianity
41
Passover Judaism 358
45
Carneia Greece
47
Eleusinian Mysteries Greece
135
Elevation of the Cross Christianity
139
Fordicidia and Parilia Rome
157
Games Rome
167
Ganesha Chaturthi Hinduism
178
Gurpurb Sikhism
186
New Year Islam 326
191
Holi and Vasant Panchami Hinduism
192

Cherry Blossom Festival Japan
56
MidAutumn China Korea Japan 282
61
Transfiguration
62
V
78
D
85
Days of the Dead West
92
Dionysia Greece and Rome
100
Divali Hinduism Jainism Sikhism
109
Vaishakha and Vaisakhi Hinduism
114
Dong Zhi China
115
New Yam Festival Ewe 317
119
Easter Christianity
121
Eid Islam
129
New Year Japan 327
197
Holy Week Christianity
198
Rain Festivals Aztecs 383
212
Khoiak and HebSed Egypt
223
KI LAM Hittites
229
Sabbath Judaism 401
231
L
237
About the Author 549
239
Saint Nicholas Christianity 415
240
Lent Christianity
244
Liberalia Rome
250
Spring Festival of Cybele and Attis
251
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關於作者 (2005)

Christian Roy, PhD, is a historian and a freelance translator and researcher. He is currently a member of the International Troeltsch-Tillich Project, preparing French editions of these two German theologians' works, based at Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec.

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