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Kiddushin and Wedding Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723

Subjects:

Marriage, Ritual & observance, Ritual objects, Community, Cities

Categories:

Print & book culture
Two-panel drawing, the top of many people in interior room, some seated on right side under canopy, and the bottom of many people outside with a central figure with veil.
Circumcision Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Life cycle, Circumcision, Family, Children, Ritual & observance

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Print & book culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…

Contributor:

Émile Durkheim

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Philosophy, Theology, Ecology, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Science & philosophy
On the Emancipation of Women in Jewish Worship
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Theology teaches us that when God the Eternal formed man He gave him an extra rib. This rib was destined for the formation of woman in order that this creature, who was to become the rich…

Contributor:

Elissa Lisbonne

Places:

Avignon, France

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Women, Sexism, Ritual & observance, Prayer & liturgy, Synagogue, Theology

Categories:

Theology, Historical writing
The High Holidays
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Mourning

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows men in prayer shawls sitting while one man on central platform sounds a ram's horn. Bottom image shows men in prayer shawls sitting and standing in room with several lit candles.
Funeral Activities
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723–1743

Subjects:

Life cycle, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Cemetery, Death

Categories:

Print & book culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.
Suicide
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The only essential difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is that the second permits free inquiry to a far greater degree than the first. Of course, Catholicism by the very fact that it is…

Contributor:

Émile Durkheim

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Christianity, Theology, Ritual & observance, Death

Categories:

Science & philosophy