Ritual

Perspectives and Dimensions

Catherine Bell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973510-5 (ISBN)

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From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self- expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

Former Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University

PART 1 THEORIES: THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION; EARLY THEORIES AND THEORISTS; THEY MYTH AND RITUAL SCHOOLS; THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROATCHES TO RITUAL; PROFILE: INTERPRETING THE AKITU FESTIVAL; CONCLUSION; EARLY THEORIES OF SOCIAL SOLIDARITY; FUNCTIONALISM; NEOFUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS ANALYSES; STRUCTURALISM; MAGIC, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE; PROFILE: INTERPRETING THE MUKANDA INITIATION; CONCLUSION; SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS AND SYMBOLIC ACTION; LINGUISTICS; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE; PROFILE: INTERPRETING BRITISH AND SWAZI ENTHRONEMENT RITES; CONCLUSION; PART II RITES: THE SPECTRUM OF RITUAL ACTIVITIES; RITES OF PASSAGE; CALENDRICAL RITES; RITES OF AFFLICTION; FEASTING, FASTING, AND FESTIVALS; POLITICAL RITES; CONCLUSION; PART III CONTEXTS: THE FABRIC OF RITUAL LIFE; SYSTEMS; TYPOLOGIES; ORTHOPRAXY AND ORTHODOXY; TRADITIONAL AND SECULAR; ORAL AND LITERATE; CHURCH, SECT, AND CULT; CONCLUSION; TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION; RITUAL INVENTION; MEDIA AND MESSAGE; CONCLUSION; REPUDIATING, RETURNING, ROMANCING; THE EMERGENCE OF "RITUAL"; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCE; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2010
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 155 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	0-19-973510-7 / 0199735107
ISBN-13	978-0-19-973510-5 / 9780199735105
Zustand	Neuware