Empowered Objects: Material Expressions of Spiritual Beliefs in the Colonial Chesapeake Region

Lucas, Michael T.

doi:10.1007/bf03376939

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“…To offer the meaning of cultural restoration in the modern period, Lapsley [102] introduced the notion of "personality development, " which includes the truth, goodness, and beauty of human nature and the proper values of the subject into the purpose of cultural restoration. Lucas's [103] notion of "spiritual empowerment" seeks to instill the importance of storytelling throughout the cultural restoration process. This study explores the feasibility of aesthetic education in environmental art through artistic means, revealing the new-age significance of cultural restoration.…”

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An investigating on the ritual elements influencing factor of decorative art: based on Guangdong's ancestral hall architectural murals text mining

Li,

Lv,

Liu

et al. 2023

Herit Sci

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The gradual loss of certain good cultural genes in the traditional ritual system is, to some extent, driven by the value orientation of the art of ancestral hall decoration. This article uses wall paintings as a medium to uncover significant variables affecting the decorating of ancestral hall murals and to analyze the culturally formative relationships underlying their art from a ceremonial perspective. It depends on textual excavation. The analysis demonstrates that: (1) the 521 murals generally transmit positive content; (2) the shift in the painted figures’ seating and grooming from formal to casual represents the fading of ceremonial concepts; (3) The control of economic costs may be a possible explanation for the large number of figures in crouching, skirting, and side-lying postures in wall paintings; (4) The fact that the colors employed in the garments of the figures from the Ming and Qing dynasties don’t follow the folk color scheme demonstrates that the creative production at that time was not constrained by a lot of ritualistic considerations. The study concludes that the absence of an educational component in the arts is a contributing factor to the diluted nature of traditional rituals in modern China.

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An investigating on the ritual elements influencing factor of decorative art: based on Guangdong's ancestral hall architectural murals text mining

Li,

Lv,

Liu

et al. 2023

Herit Sci

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“…Michael Lucas describes the difficulty of disentangling the spiritual practices represented by these objects, given the creolization of European, African, and American Indian cultures. 16 It is clear from these examples that the continuation of West African spiritual practices was not considered antithetical to the practice of Christianity. 17 Indeed, some enslaved Africans in the Americas had been introduced to Christianity through West African missions.…”

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A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland

Masur

2021

ISJS

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An old negro, the white-washer about St. Thomas', told me a nice story of Father Hunter. One night, it was pitch dark, two young men came from Virginia to call Father Hunter to a sick man. They were very respectful and spoke very little; one of them had a lantern to show the way. They entered the skiff and rowed him across; the Potomac here is about eight miles wide. After the Father had attended to the sick man, they brought him back in the same way. Now when Father Hunter had stepped ashore, he turned around to thank them, when lo and behold, men, skiff and lantern had disappeared; they were two angels. 1

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“…Ritual objects often serve as a phenomenological replacement for the mysterious, complex forces of nature that cannot be easily explained like ancestors, God, universe, or love (Shepherd & Kay, 2019). It is the tangible, ritualistic aspects of using personal spiritual objects for self-reflection that are now beginning to be studied (Lucas, 2014). Certainly, it is only in the last decade that researchers have begun to explore personal tangible rituals as augmented by digital media (Gould, Kohn & Gibbs, 2019).…”

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Room for truth: a new ritual for meaning making in a physical digital future

Stinson¹

2021

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Room for Truth introduces a new physical-digital ritual which strengthens the connection between the self and the other by integrating the body’s sensory potential into social media. From self-trackers to Instagram, people are using technology to facilitate self-observation and connection with community, but mostly media fails to incorporate the body in two major ways. Firstly, the storytelling options available on mainstream platforms are largely restricted to photographic content and text-based commentary. This serves a visual-first design hierarchy which disregards the full sensory capacities of the body as n expressive organ, a natural storytelling interface which is the inheritance of all human beings. Secondly, the built environments in which people engage in genuine self-reflection are often private, tech-free spaces. However, public truth-telling can pull people out of filter bubbles, reduce polarization, instill empathy, and motivate people to take more informed action. The Room for Truth project aims to resolve these challenges by imagining a new social media which uses the body as its generative interface. It reimagines the method, the environment, and the appearance of existing methods of self-reflection to better facilitate collective truth-telling by focusing on uniting technology with the sensory storytelling potential of the human body. Specifically, the Room for Truth prototype introduces a new visual language for truth-telling in three ways: 1) a public-private booth with theming that invites self-reflection; 2) symbolic objects with embedded NFC tags which draw upon memory and sensory attributes to inspire complex storytelling; and 3) a mobile application which captures data and translates it into meaningful abstract animations which are publicly searchable. This paper discusses the Room for Truth project and the implications of a truth-telling process which bridges the physical, digital, and emotional to capture, reflect, contextualize, and transform personal and collective experiences: a new ritual for meaning-making in a physical-digital future.

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Empowered Objects: Material Expressions of Spiritual Beliefs in the Colonial Chesapeake Region

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

An investigating on the ritual elements influencing factor of decorative art: based on Guangdong's ancestral hall architectural murals text mining

An investigating on the ritual elements influencing factor of decorative art: based on Guangdong's ancestral hall architectural murals text mining

A Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland

Room for truth: a new ritual for meaning making in a physical digital future

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