Transforming the Beasts: Animals and Music in Early China

Sterckx, Roel

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“…Tasting is another sense that strictly embodies religious meaning (Detienne 1972;Hecker [4] 2005;Fulton 2006b;Brubaker and Linardou 2007;Bynum 1987;Sterckx 2005aSterckx , 2011Freeman 2015;Rubel 2015). Eating and drinking play an important role in the history of religions (Flood 2014).…”

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“…Hearing (with speaking or singing as its counterparts) is a further significant sense in the [17] history of religions. It is relevant in recitation, prayer, auditions, hearing voices (McCarthy-Jones, Waegeli, and Watkins 2013), and oral communication (Wilke and Moebus 2011;Staal 1986;Elson 2004;Denny 1989;Wild 2006), as well as in performance (Brown 2008;Cupchik 2015) and music (Chen 2001;Harris and Dawut 2002;Sterckx 2000;Shannon 2004;Belzen 2013;Guzy 2008;Hoffman and Walton 1992;Wuthnow 2003;Hirschkind 2006;Laack 2015). Rhythm, especially, can evoke sensual states of transition (Needham 1967).…”

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“…Rituals are prominent [19] among them (Bull and Mitchell 2015). Many rituals are designed to evoke certain sensory experiences (e.g., the multifarious effects of a given type of sensory input such as sound in the lives of members of a given community) or concentrate on the symbolic meanings attributed to a sense in a given group's conceptualization of holiness, the divine, or evil (Thurlkill 2016;Hallett 2013;Morgan 2012;Green 2011;Pentcheva 2010;Morrison 2008;Harvey 2006Harvey , 2001Fulton 2006a;Shannon 2004;Chen 2001;Sterckx 2000;Lewisohn 2008;Detienne 1972;Fraigneau-Julien 1985). Ritual action is "thick with sensory meaning" (Grimes 1982, 545), including smell (Howes 1987), sound, and body movement.…”

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Senses, Religion, and Religious Encounter: Literature Review and Research Perspectives

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Giacinto

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2019

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An overview of the senses in the study of religion and religious encounter is provided, along with reflections on the ways in which various specific senses were imagined to serve as modes of communication between human beings and between humans and transcendent beings. How the individual case studies collected in this volume inform such a project and further research on religion, the senses, and the role of the senses in religious encounter is a core concern of this introductory essay. We end by suggesting new directions for additional research for an integrated and systematic examination of how senses shape and are used in human encounters with the transcendent and the (human) religious Other.

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“…Sterckx, 2000). Music and dance were linked to the observation of sound and motion in the animal world.…”

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Ritual, Mimesis, and the Nonhuman Animal World in Early China

Sterckx

2016

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Early Chinese texts frequently link the origins of ritual, play, dance, and music to patterns of behavior observed in the nonhuman animal world. Moralizing readings of animal behavior proliferate in texts and iconography from the classical age of the Warring States and early empires (fifth century BC to first century AD), when China's masters of philosophy were drawing up the contours of their ethical theories. The animal world inspired models for human ritualized conduct that became codified in the classicist (Confucian) ritual canon. This paper examines representative examples of this and tries to identify some of the conceptual schemes used in early China to subsume the animal world into moral frameworks that were meant to guide human conduct.

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“…n. e.) sadrže mnoge podatke o drugim životinjama, a slične su se informacije zapisivale i tijekom dinastija Zhou (1045. Zbog svega toga, zaključuje se u raspravama, zvukove u glazbu mogu preobraziti (kultivirati) samo mudraci ili gospoda (v Sterckx 2000)…”

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Transforming the Beasts: Animals and Music in Early China

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