Sentences with phrase «of sacred objects»

To get still closer to the story, one might consider the drive north to Port MacNeil and the 30 minute ferry trip to Alert Bay on Cormorant Island to spend an afternoon at the wonderful Umista Museum where the Kwakwakawa present evidence of the theft of their sacred objects conducted in a fog of \ secret \ Indian Agent and missionary collusion as revealed in documents preserved by the governments of Canada and B.C.

From shimmering birds to monkey chandeliers and deer sconces complete with flowers and lights, Josephson celebrates the beauty of sacred objects.

From shimmering birds to spirit heads and deer sconces complete with flowers and lights, Josephson celebrates the beauty of sacred objects, investigating their meaning and exploring their connections to art.

The Native American Zuni tribe have been extremely vocal in their calls for the return of sacred objects from both European and South American collections.

During the empowerment section, participants will come to the front and be blessed with some of the sacred objects.

Even a Buddha stature takes on the character of a sacred object.

Not exact matches

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»

Ideologues in the culture wars might object to such confusion of the sacred and profane, perhaps forgetting that Jesus was born in a stable.

The object of religious valuing, in other words, is «sacred.»»

But if any did, it was this narrow usage that betrayed them by leading them to focus on the book itself as a sacred object, unrelated to the God of whom it speaks.

It is not possible, according to Catholic teaching, to avoid even the mere possibility of a conflict between sacred theology and science by delimiting beforehand and on principle the domain of reality to which the propositions asserted by each refer, in such a way that even the material object of each set of affirmations would be different from the start and as a consequence no contradiction at all would be possible (Denzinger 2109).

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

There are also stones of various sizes, shapes, and colors, several Coca - Cola bottles, and many other objects sacred and symbolic.

I feel a sense of awe and humility when I look at it; I would even consider it a sacred object even though I am not a religious person.

But if we can not locate the sacred in particular places or objects outside of us — what about finding it within us?

In Greece, I'm told, many Byzantine icons have been literally «defaced» by the pious who fleck off little pieces of the «holy» object (particularly about the eyes) and keep them as sacred relics.

I can understand the idea of «sacred» objects - the projection of emotions, feelings, memories, even desires and hopes onto objects or places.

His sole object as a teacher was «to lay down a pathway to the reading of sacred Scripture for the simple and uneducated.»

This consideration of the forms of worship leads naturally to the topic of sacred acts and sacred objects.

Prior to this period of history, the traditional words of blessing before a meal were «Blessed be thou, O Lord God, King of the Universe»; in this era the focus shifted ever so subtly and the food itself became the object of blessing — «Bless, O Lord, this food» — for food was considered mundane or profane, and only when touched by the holy words of a Christian could it be brought into the realm of the sacred.

Those loopholes may not be quite as large as Naumer suggests, however The bill — which focuses on tribes and not individuals or «almost any Indian» — requires that a tribe establish that an object or objects in question originated with it and come under one of the three categories — sacred object, funerary object, human remains.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Part of the problem is that theologians find it hard to escape the rigid dualism of sacred and profane, subject and object, nature and supernature.

Personality is sacred not only in the human object of the serviceable deed but in the doer of it also, and he is to love his neighbor even as he loves himself.

When a tree becomes a cult object, it is not as a tree that it is venerated, but as a hierophany, that is, a manifestation of the sacred.

If scientists had sacred objects, this would be one of them: a single, closely guarded 137 - year - old cylinder of metal, housed in a vault outside of Paris.

«The Sefer Torah has unique symbolic value and is nowadays the most sacred object in Judaism,» says Nicholas de Lange, a researcher in Jewish and Hebrew studies at the University of Cambridge.

There's hollowness to their time together, a revelatory sadness hiding beneath the façade of sacred places and objects that hold no spiritual value over them.

A sacred object, the Dagger of Time, must be returned to its rightful place or the world will fall to ruin.

Each brings a certain amount of special knowledge and a certain number of sacred childhood objects to the process, and the extraordinary care with which they negotiate these transfers of information is a measure of how much they care.

Those 45 and up and those who have taken to the show on video or DVD may well object to Burton's comic treatment of it, but this is hardly the first time he's trampled on ground considered sacred.

A lot of the anger directed at Amazon in this instance comes from the notion that somehow books are more sacred than other objects that are for sale.

The Centre opened in 1979 to house the returned portion of the Potlatch Collection of sacred ceremonial objects and cedar bark regalia, which were used in Kwagiulth winter ceremonies.

Many precious objects were found at the bottom of this beautiful cenote, which indicates the Mayas used it for sacred rituals instead of human sacrifices.

Later on, Bali Governor Dewa Made Beratha stated similar rejection, citing, among others, that the bill «might place the Balinese cultural heritage and sacred religious objects in danger of legal prosecution.»

In the middle of such green and dense forest, lives over 600 tame and friendly monkeys that all the time appeal to visitor, Part from functioning as sacred places, the forest along with the monkeys comes to be fascinating tourist object that is worth visiting.

Today, visitors can climb aboard an inner tube to ride down the placid Caves Branch River, entering miles of passageways that still feature artifacts and sacred objects left behind by Maya priests.

The installation, while commemorating those involved in these traumas, focuses on the ways in which Southeast Asian sacred traditions, here in the form of drawings and objects, are continued forms of resistance against conflict, colonial oppression, and displacement.

The meticulously preserved folded paper sheets from his performances — one of them over 100ft long — are shown in glass boxes like sacred objects.

This large pictural autobiography includes sacred objects, portraits, tributes and abstract spin - offs: a challenging mixture of melancholy and joy of life.

This exhibition of more than 40 sculptures attempts to connect that realism with the sacred use of the objects.

To be in Nigeria, to see these sacred objects that only come out for ceremonial days, that are kept in complete secrecy — altered my sense of art, magic, beauty, and ancestry.

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Glenn Kaino's kinetic sculptures transform familiar objects and activities to explore the complexities of time, the juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, and the dialectic of ancient and contemporary culture.

Also included in the exhibition is Treasures of Darkness: Spanish Colonial Silver from the Middle American Research Institute, which presents a selection of mixed - media objects, both sacred and profane.

Sonia Gomes makes sculptures in cloth and wire, eclectic fabric contortions that evokes simultaneously the idea of viscera and the sacred object.

Plakidas explores the bi-polarities of the profane and the sacred; of the circus tent and the church, with self portraits and a number of additional props such as a circus wagon and flying geese, The artists writes: «The devotional object becomes the exhibitionist subject and the site of worship becomes the enclosed space of a child's fantasy».

It examines moments of collective ritualised behaviour concerned with the creation and destruction of totemic or sacred objects.

Her explorations of sacred and ritualistic practices merge with her personal and social histories in works that incorporate visual poetry, found objects and media to convey a universal sense of healing.