Ritual and Narrative : : Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies / / ed. by Gregor Ahn, Jan Rupp, Vera Nünning.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Ahn, Gregor,; Nünning, Vera,; Rupp, Jan,
• MitwirkendeR: Hammer, Stefanie,; Johannsen, Dirk,; Meyer, Scarlett,; Nünning, Ansgar,; Nünning, Vera,; Rupp, Jan,; Ryan, Marie-Laure,; Schörner, Günther,; Sommer, Roy,; Vette, Joachim,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Ritual and Narrative: An Introduction -- I. Theoretical Explorations: Forms, Functions, and Social Practice of Ritual and Narrative -- Ritual Studies and Narratology: What Can They Do For Each Other -- On the Narrativity of Rituals: Interfaces between Narratives and Rituals and Their Potential for Ritual Studies -- Obama’s American Narrative: A Narratological Approach to Complex Rituals -- II. Historical Case Studies of Different Media and Cultural Contexts: Ritual and Narrative in Depth -- Depicting Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor: Narratives of Ritual in Classical Archaeology -- “He had just finished presenting the burnt offering …”: Narrative and Ritual in the Context of Saul’s Failure (1 Sam 13-14) -- Two Types of Magic in One Tradition? A Cognitive-Historiographical Case Study on the Interplay of Narratives and Rituals -- Ritual, Narrative, and Identity in English Pageant Fictions of the Interwar Years -- Ritual and Narrative in the Intercultural British Novel at the Turn of the 21st Century -- How to Commemorate a Fallen Soldier: Ritual and Narrative in the Bundeswehr -- Notes on Contributors