Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts.
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...
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| Superior document: | Numen Book Series-Studies in the history of religions, v. 114-1 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Jens Kreinath , Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg
- Defining ‘Rituals’ / Jan A.M. Snoek
- Ritual and Other Forms of Social Action / Dietrich Harth
- Conceptual Alternatives to ‘Ritual’ / Don Handelman
- ‘Ritual’: A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective / Michael Stausberg
- Myth and Ritual / Robert A. Segal
- Ritual and Psyche / Barbara Boudewijnse
- Ritual in Society / Ursula Rao
- Ritual: Religious and Secular / Jan G. Platvoet
- Structure, Process, Form / Terence Turner
- Ritual and Meaning / Axel Michaels
- Action / James Laidlaw and Caroline Humphrey
- Aesthetics / Ron G. Williams and James W. Boyd
- Cognition / E. Thomas Lawson
- Communication / Günter Thomas
- Ethology / Dorothea Baudy
- Gender / Rosalind C. Morris
- Performance / Ronald L. Grimes
- Praxis / Christoph Wulf
- Relationality / Michael Houseman
- Semiotics / Jens Kreinath
- Agency / William S. Sax
- Complexity / Burkhard Gladigow
- Deference / Maurice Bloch
- Dynamics / Bruce Kapferer
- Efficacy / Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
- Embodiment / Catherine Bell
- Emotion / Dorothea Lüddeckens
- Framing / Don Handelman
- Language / Carlo Severi
- Media / Felicia Hughes-Freeland
- Participation / Edward L. Schieffelin
- Reflexivity / Michael Stausberg
- Rhetorics / James W. Fernandez
- Transmission / Harvey Whitehouse
- Virtuality / Bruce Kapferer
- An Invitation to ‘Theorizing’ Theorizing Rituals: Some Suggestions for Using the Indexes / Florian Jeserich
- Index of Names / Florian Jeserich
- Index of Subjects / Florian Jeserich
- References / Jens Kreinath , Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg.