"Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of male and female serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world."--BOOK JACKET. "Tho…
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Initiation: the living reality of an archetype
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This book builds on the vast clinical experience of Joseph L. Henderson, who became interested in initiatory symbolism when he began his analysis with Jung in 1929. Henderson studied this symbolism in patients' dreams, fantasies, and active imagination, and demonstrated the arch…
Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays
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This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious instituti…
The Gunungan/Kayon (mountain-like thing) is the Javanese cultural symbol of the cosmic mountain which is the Javanese universe. It is an archetypal symbol of being which emerged at the beginning of time. Among the Javanese there are various things which symbolize the Archetype. …
The American performance artist Linda Mary Montano has created a career based upon performances that deftly navigate the space between the public and personal, liminal and liminoid, and extraordinary and mundane. In this thesis, I examine how her performances have successfully f…
During the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of young Israelis, after completing their military service, journeyed to South America or Asia. These journeys become a common pattern in Israel, and the travelers are known as backpackers. This study examines the phenomenon in …
This Executive Leadership Paper documents efforts to develop a comprehensive framework of promising practices to best serve Black and Latino boys. The educational and societal plight of this population is well documented and they are served in alternative schools and programs in…
In light of the success which the baptismal catechumenate's restoration has had for Christian initiation, the time has arrived for the Church to view the catechumenal journey as perhaps the best method for preparing its members for other sacraments as well. Presacramental catech…
When the Israeli state occupied the Palestinian Territories (West Bank and the Gaza Strip) in 1967, it gradually put restrictions on Palestinian movement in place. At first, Palestinians could easily circumvent these, but in the last 50 years these restrictions have become an in…
This dissertation addresses the lack of dialogue which exists between the Bukusu people of Western Kenya and its Islamic and Christian peoples. The guiding question of this dissertation is: What theoretical understandings and strategies can be defined which could lead to constru…
