Cosmology, identity and food related rituals among the Mandaeans

The Mandaeans are members of a Gnostic ethnoreligious group who live in Iran and Iraq. They have always been a small minority under the threat of cultural extinction. Recent wars and political unrest in their homeland have intensified the situation and accelerated the emigration and dissemination of...

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Subtitles:Pluralités en marge
Main Author: ʿArabistānī, Mihrdād ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [2020]
In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 189, Pages: 203-226
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mandeans / Cosmology / Food / Ritual / Religious identity
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BF Gnosticism
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Mandaean
B purificación
B Purification
B Alimentation
B Ritual
B Mandéen
B Cosmología
B Identité
B Alimentación
B Rituel
B Cosmologie
B Cosmology
B Identidad
B Identity
B mandeo
B Food
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520 |a Los mandeos son miembros de un grupo etnorreligioso gnóstico que vive en Irán e Irak. Siempre han sido una pequeña minoría en peligro de extinción cultural. Las guerras recientes y los disturbios políticos en sus países de origen han intensificado esta situación y han acelerado su emigración. Ellos practican rituales religiosos elaborados que giran en torno al tema recurrente de la pureza corporal, incluida una atención particular al ritual de la alimentación y a su preparación. Conjugando un punto de vista geertziano y datos etnográficos, se estudiará la relación mutua entre los rituales relacionados con la alimentación y la cosmología, como también la formación de un "mundo religioso". Por otra parte, este último puede considerarse una construcción social basada en la experiencia histórica y la situación sociopolítica de las poblaciones. La obsesión ritual por la pureza del cuerpo y de la comida refleja simbólicamente una preocupación por la pureza y la integridad de la comunidad, al tiempo que restablece los límites de la identidad particular del grupo en un entorno amenazador. Por consiguiente, los rituales relacionados con la alimentación no sólo representan simbólicamente la visión del mundo mandeo y establecen un ethos específico para el pueblo, sino que también crean y recrean su identidad distinta en un entorno amenazador. 
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