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Ritual Practice
A ritual is a repeated, structured sequence of actions or behaviors that alters the internal or external state of an individual, group, or environment, regardless of conscious understanding, emotional context, or symbolic meaning. Traditionally associated with gestures, words, or revered objects, rituals also occur in non-human species, such as elephant mourning or corvid object-leaving. They may be prescribed by tradition, including religious practices, and are often characterized by formalism, traditionalism, rule-governance, and performance. Rituals are a feature of all known human societies. They include not only the worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also rites of passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages, funerals and more. Even common actions like hand-shaking and saying "hello" may be termed as ''rituals''. The field of ritual studies has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gandrung Banyuwangi
''Gandrung'' (; Osing language, Osing: ; ; ) is a traditional dance from Indonesia. ''Gandrung'' has many variations and is popular in Bali, Lombok, and East Java, Eastern Java among the Balinese people, Balinese, Sasak, and Javanese people, Javanese (especially the Osing language, Osing Javanese). The most popular variation is ''gandrung'' from the Banyuwangi region in the eastern peninsula of Java; thus, the city is often referred to as ''Kota Gandrung,'' or "the city of ''gandrung''". Originally a ritual dance dedicated to the goddess of rice and fertility, Dewi Sri, it is currently performed as a social dance of courtship and love in communal and social events, or as a tourist attraction. The Gandrung Sewu Festival is held at Banyuwangi annually. Descriptions ''Gandrung'' derives its name from the Javanese language, Javanese word for "love". It is theorized that the dance originated as a ritual dance to express the people's affection for the rice goddess Dewi Sri, with tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
