Liberating Rites

Tom F. Driver

Also by Tom F. Driver -- Preface -- Ritual Pathways -- Introduction -- Ritualizing: The Animals Do It and So Do We -- Modern Warfare: The Loss of Ritual Pathways -- Priest and Shaman: Two Pathways of Religious Ritual -- Modalities of Performance -- Ritual, Theater, and Sacrifice -- Ritual's Two Siblings: Performance in the Confessional and the Ethical Modes -- Ritual's Social Gifts -- Order -- Community -- Transformation -- Conclusion -- Christian Sacraments as the Performance of Freedom -- Appendixes