Paying the Rounds at Ireland’s Holy Wells

Ray, Celeste

doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-415

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“…The cutting down of such trees was utterly forbidden in pre-Christian times and also sometimes latterly among local Christian communities (Monaghan, 2014, p. 45). Rag trees, of native hawthorn, holly, or ash, are often associated with holy wells and have been employed for their curative properties for illness or anxieties by tying rags or ribbons, admixing pagan tradition with Christian ritual (Ray, 2015). Indeed, sacred rag trees span global and historical cultures and have been used for a wide variety of reasons: rags are variously tied to mark sacred trees, as offerings to tree deities, as votive offerings, as thanking for cures, for ensuring a good harvest, for commemorating death, or for pacifying ancestors' spirits (Dafni, 2002).…”

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Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation

Byrne

2024

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal

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This article traces persistent and important counter-narratives within Western and Christian traditions, which correlate more closely with many indigenous worldviews from across the globe than with dominant narratives from across these traditions. It posits that a paradigmatic transformation is required toward an integral and integrative eco-cosmology, one that embraces cosmic interconnection and complexity. This may emerge from green shoots emanating from a diverse range of traditions, including, importantly, from within the dominant Western tradition.

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Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation

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2024

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(Re)Thinking Out Gobnait: Memory and Presence in Folklore and Landscape

Keely¹

2022

Women and Pilgrimage

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Nonverbal Communication in Rituals on Irish Pilgrimage Routes

Gierek

2022

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There are endless lists of academic publications on pilgrimage and on nonverbal communication, but very rarely if at all, do these two phenomena meet together in the same one, hence the author’s attempt to bring them together here. In this article the author discusses nonverbal communication in the context of pilgrimage rituals. Since rituals are carried out both physically and mentally, their performance requires the involvement of all the senses. A ritual may be verbal or nonverbal and very often is both. All elements of the ritual send a message. Thus, ritual communicates—it is a source of information about the individual retrieved by others—but it is not only that, as it also effects the mind, thoughts and spirituality of the individual. It has enormous influence on the well-being of a person; it is therapeutic. The author describes and analyzes single rituals related to the well, the tree, various kinds of stones, and other objects located on pilgrimage routes. While doing this, the author takes a phenomenological approach. She bases her analysis of nonverbal communication mainly on ethnographic materials. She also utilizes sources from the areas of archeology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. They are supplemented by her own participant observation at many pilgrimage places in Ireland over the period 1995–2012.

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Paying the Rounds at Ireland’s Holy Wells

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Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation

Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation

(Re)Thinking Out Gobnait: Memory and Presence in Folklore and Landscape

Nonverbal Communication in Rituals on Irish Pilgrimage Routes

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