Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199790869
- eISBN:
- 9780190279257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This chapter begins with a taxonomy of votive offerings that includes collages, photographs, documents, votive texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, and a range of representative objects. A ...
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This chapter begins with a taxonomy of votive offerings that includes collages, photographs, documents, votive texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, and a range of representative objects. A subsequent section addresses mandates for church orderliness and the ways in which these negatively affect material and textual offerings and contribute to the alteration or demise of current votive practice. The chapter then analyzes votive offerings as performative objects that give thanks, repay debts, close cycles, maintain relations, witness and commemorate, and publicize. The final section discusses retablos (votive paintings), including the interaction of text and image and the construction of miracles through representation.Less
This chapter begins with a taxonomy of votive offerings that includes collages, photographs, documents, votive texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, and a range of representative objects. A subsequent section addresses mandates for church orderliness and the ways in which these negatively affect material and textual offerings and contribute to the alteration or demise of current votive practice. The chapter then analyzes votive offerings as performative objects that give thanks, repay debts, close cycles, maintain relations, witness and commemorate, and publicize. The final section discusses retablos (votive paintings), including the interaction of text and image and the construction of miracles through representation.
Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199790869
- eISBN:
- 9780190279257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The chapter begins with a discussion of votive exchange, including miracle petitions, the promises made when requesting miracles, and the offerings made in reciprocation. Also discussed are the ...
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The chapter begins with a discussion of votive exchange, including miracle petitions, the promises made when requesting miracles, and the offerings made in reciprocation. Also discussed are the purposes of votive offerings, including fulfilling promises, paying debts, bearing witness, and documenting miracles. In this context the use of petitionary texts and objects is analyzed. The chapter concludes with an overview of types of miracles. These range from medical miracles to silencing gossipers and include miracles concerning accidents, natural disasters, crime, incarceration, absence due to kidnapping and disappearance, migration, housing, employment, agriculture, self-improvement, education, family, childbirth and children, addictions, and war.Less
The chapter begins with a discussion of votive exchange, including miracle petitions, the promises made when requesting miracles, and the offerings made in reciprocation. Also discussed are the purposes of votive offerings, including fulfilling promises, paying debts, bearing witness, and documenting miracles. In this context the use of petitionary texts and objects is analyzed. The chapter concludes with an overview of types of miracles. These range from medical miracles to silencing gossipers and include miracles concerning accidents, natural disasters, crime, incarceration, absence due to kidnapping and disappearance, migration, housing, employment, agriculture, self-improvement, education, family, childbirth and children, addictions, and war.
Salima Ikram (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774248580
- eISBN:
- 9781936190010
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774248580.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different ...
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The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive offerings. Here, a series of studies on the different types of animal mummies, the methods of mummification, and the animal cemeteries located at sites throughout Egypt are drawn together in a definitive volume on ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Studies of these animals provide information not only about the fauna of the country, and indirectly, its climate, but also about animal domestication, veterinary practices, human nutrition, mummification technology, and the religious practices of the ancient Egyptians.Less
The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive offerings. Here, a series of studies on the different types of animal mummies, the methods of mummification, and the animal cemeteries located at sites throughout Egypt are drawn together in a definitive volume on ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Studies of these animals provide information not only about the fauna of the country, and indirectly, its climate, but also about animal domestication, veterinary practices, human nutrition, mummification technology, and the religious practices of the ancient Egyptians.
Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199790869
- eISBN:
- 9780190279257
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The ...
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Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The analysis is primarily in material religion and the psychology of religion. The study is written in two voices, one analytical and the other narrative, that alternate throughout the book. The focus is on miracles in everyday life; miraculous images, meaning statues and paintings imbued with sacred presence and power; and petitionary devotion, by which votaries request miracles and in exchange make offerings. Votive offerings are studied in depth and include collages, photographs, documents, votive texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, retablos, and representative objects, as well as pilgrimage and shrine visits. The study’s principal themes include votive exchange, sacred power and human agency, reification, transitional objects, simulacra, ontology, projective animation, simultaneous resort to religious and medical resources, faith as a cognitive filter, sacred power transfer, social and narrative construction, positive framing, collaborative and deferred control, vows (juramentos), and causal attribution as it relates to miracle attribution. The miraculous images treated in the book include the Cristo Negro de Otatitlán, Niño del Cacahuatito, Señor de Chalma, Señor de la Misericordia (Tepatitlán), Señor del Rayo, Señor de las Tres Caídas (Teotilalpam), Virgen de Dolores de Soriano, Virgen de Guadalupe, Virgen del Pueblito, Virgen de Juquila, Virgen de los Remedios, Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos, Virgen de Talpa, Virgen de Tonatico, and Virgen de Zapopan, among many others.Less
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The analysis is primarily in material religion and the psychology of religion. The study is written in two voices, one analytical and the other narrative, that alternate throughout the book. The focus is on miracles in everyday life; miraculous images, meaning statues and paintings imbued with sacred presence and power; and petitionary devotion, by which votaries request miracles and in exchange make offerings. Votive offerings are studied in depth and include collages, photographs, documents, votive texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, retablos, and representative objects, as well as pilgrimage and shrine visits. The study’s principal themes include votive exchange, sacred power and human agency, reification, transitional objects, simulacra, ontology, projective animation, simultaneous resort to religious and medical resources, faith as a cognitive filter, sacred power transfer, social and narrative construction, positive framing, collaborative and deferred control, vows (juramentos), and causal attribution as it relates to miracle attribution. The miraculous images treated in the book include the Cristo Negro de Otatitlán, Niño del Cacahuatito, Señor de Chalma, Señor de la Misericordia (Tepatitlán), Señor del Rayo, Señor de las Tres Caídas (Teotilalpam), Virgen de Dolores de Soriano, Virgen de Guadalupe, Virgen del Pueblito, Virgen de Juquila, Virgen de los Remedios, Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos, Virgen de Talpa, Virgen de Tonatico, and Virgen de Zapopan, among many others.
William Van Andringa
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199572069
- eISBN:
- 9780191738739
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572069.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
Pompeian citizens were surrounded by the sacred. Not only were there a lot of cult places in the town, there were also crowds of statues of divinities inside each sanctuary, usually set up as votive ...
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Pompeian citizens were surrounded by the sacred. Not only were there a lot of cult places in the town, there were also crowds of statues of divinities inside each sanctuary, usually set up as votive offerings. In a world of polytheism, the gods were never alone. Each divinity had multiple aspects and zones of competence, and the association with other gods in sanctuary spaces allows us to define their ‘personalities’ more sharply. This chapter studies the statues found in the sanctuaries of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and shows that the collocation of gods in a sanctuary and their association with the emperor or with local notables was a way of defining the religious interests of the cult in question. Most prominent here are the statues of ancestral divinities, embodiments of the city's religious and historical memory of the city.Less
Pompeian citizens were surrounded by the sacred. Not only were there a lot of cult places in the town, there were also crowds of statues of divinities inside each sanctuary, usually set up as votive offerings. In a world of polytheism, the gods were never alone. Each divinity had multiple aspects and zones of competence, and the association with other gods in sanctuary spaces allows us to define their ‘personalities’ more sharply. This chapter studies the statues found in the sanctuaries of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and shows that the collocation of gods in a sanctuary and their association with the emperor or with local notables was a way of defining the religious interests of the cult in question. Most prominent here are the statues of ancestral divinities, embodiments of the city's religious and historical memory of the city.
Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199790869
- eISBN:
- 9780190279257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
A narrative analysis of devotion at the Señor de Chalma shrine in Mexico state, including the caves above the church and the nearby sacred tree in Ahuehuete. The discussion focuses on the ambience at ...
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A narrative analysis of devotion at the Señor de Chalma shrine in Mexico state, including the caves above the church and the nearby sacred tree in Ahuehuete. The discussion focuses on the ambience at different areas of the shrine, on the nearby commercial emporium, on votive offerings, on the ascetic hermits represented in the Cave of the Apparition, on some pilgrims, and on the author’s experiences during the fieldwork.Less
A narrative analysis of devotion at the Señor de Chalma shrine in Mexico state, including the caves above the church and the nearby sacred tree in Ahuehuete. The discussion focuses on the ambience at different areas of the shrine, on the nearby commercial emporium, on votive offerings, on the ascetic hermits represented in the Cave of the Apparition, on some pilgrims, and on the author’s experiences during the fieldwork.
