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Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Holy Wells and Sacred Waters,” on the spiritual veneration of natural water sources as cure providers and portals to other worlds, with Celeste Ray, professor of anthropology at the University of the South.
Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Holy Wells and Sacred Waters,” on the spiritual veneration of natural water sources as cure providers and portals to other worlds, with Celeste Ray, professor of anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee and author of The Origins of Ireland’s Holy Wells.
Around the world and in every faith there exist wells, springs, and even ponds and lakes that are sites of religious devotion. Ireland stands out as having an exceptionally large number of “holy wells” firmly entrenched as part of the identity and traditions of the communities where they are found.
Join Professor Celeste Ray, an anthropologist who has conducted more than 20 years of fieldwork in Ireland and edited two books on sacred water sites, for a fascinating look at “holy wells” and other sacred water sources in Ireland and beyond.
Image: A “holy well” in Clondrohid, Count Cork. (Photo by Celeste Ray.)
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Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.
Image: A “holy well” in Clondrohid, Count Cork. (Photo by Celeste Ray.)
LOCATION
1414 3rd Ave S St. , # 101, Nashville, TN 37210
