Cherry Hill Seminary intensive
"Giving Greater Rite: Putting Story and Mystery Back into Ritual"
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
in San Jose prior to PantheaCon
Go to www.cherryhillseminary.org to register.
Early registration ends Feb. 4.
If ritual is the nexus of contact with Other, with its accompanying experience of mystery, then why are so many of our rituals predictable and unsatisfying? From the heart of Paganistan, join us for a groundbreaking approach to ritual, presented by a master storyteller-performer and deeply-dedicated Pagan. Day-long program will cover:
The Theory: Story & Mystery
Developing an oral culture: the re-oralization of written history
E.g. Mother Berhta and Gnasher Skeggi
Articulation of cultural identity via story/mythology/ritual
E.g. The old-new queer mythology
E.g. The 700 Songs (i.e. The “Devil’s Psalmbook”)
The Received Tradition, canonicity, and the old-new mythology
E.g. The case of Cernunnos
Sense of mystery (the unexplained; sense of presence; sense of contact; non-ordinary e.g. chanted not spoken)
E.g. Wheaton College incident
The Practice: Ritual
Interface of story and ritual to instill sense of mystery: the necessity of backstory
Eg. The Wild Hunt
Eg. The Bride of the Forest
Eg. The Passion of the Harvest
Giving Greater Rite: Does and Don’t for Serious Ritualists
“Taking the ‘Eek!’ out of Critique: An Introduction to the Bruner Method of Ritual Critique”
Day-long conference will be held February 11, 2010, the day before PantheaCon, at the DoubleTree Hilton in San Jose, California. 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, with a break for lunch on your own (there are three restaurants in the hotel lobby).
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
in San Jose prior to PantheaCon
Go to www.cherryhillseminary.org to register.
Early registration ends Feb. 4.
If ritual is the nexus of contact with Other, with its accompanying experience of mystery, then why are so many of our rituals predictable and unsatisfying? From the heart of Paganistan, join us for a groundbreaking approach to ritual, presented by a master storyteller-performer and deeply-dedicated Pagan. Day-long program will cover:
The Theory: Story & Mystery
Developing an oral culture: the re-oralization of written history
E.g. Mother Berhta and Gnasher Skeggi
Articulation of cultural identity via story/mythology/ritual
E.g. The old-new queer mythology
E.g. The 700 Songs (i.e. The “Devil’s Psalmbook”)
The Received Tradition, canonicity, and the old-new mythology
E.g. The case of Cernunnos
Sense of mystery (the unexplained; sense of presence; sense of contact; non-ordinary e.g. chanted not spoken)
E.g. Wheaton College incident
The Practice: Ritual
Interface of story and ritual to instill sense of mystery: the necessity of backstory
Eg. The Wild Hunt
Eg. The Bride of the Forest
Eg. The Passion of the Harvest
Giving Greater Rite: Does and Don’t for Serious Ritualists
“Taking the ‘Eek!’ out of Critique: An Introduction to the Bruner Method of Ritual Critique”
Day-long conference will be held February 11, 2010, the day before PantheaCon, at the DoubleTree Hilton in San Jose, California. 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, with a break for lunch on your own (there are three restaurants in the hotel lobby).