Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series-Studies in the history of religions, v. 114-1
• Author: Jens Kreinath; J.A.M. Snoek; Michael Stausberg
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 114/1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (803 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Defining ‘Rituals’ /; Ritual and Other Forms of Social Action /; Conceptual Alternatives to ‘Ritual’ /; ‘Ritual’: A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective /; Myth and Ritual /; Ritual and Psyche /; Ritual in Society /; Ritual: Religious and Secular /; Structure, Process, Form /; Ritual and Meaning /; Action /; Aesthetics /; Cognition /; Communication /; Ethology /; Gender /; Performance /; Praxis /; Relationality /; Semiotics /; Agency /; Complexity /; Deference /; Dynamics /; Efficacy /; Embodiment /; Emotion /; Framing /; Language /; Media /; Participation /; Reflexivity /; Rhetorics /; Transmission /; Virtuality /; An Invitation to ‘Theorizing’ Theorizing Rituals: Some Suggestions for Using the Indexes /; Index of Names /; Index of Subjects /; References /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281400386; 9786611400385; 9047410777
• ISSN: 0169-8834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices.