Discourse in ritual studies / edited by Hans Schilderman.

• Superior document: Empirical studies in theology, v. 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Schilderman, Hans, 1959-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical studies in theology ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Discourse in Ritual Studies invites you to enter a conversation on the topic of liturgy from the perspective of ritual studies. Since liturgical topics are not among the most frequently addressed issues in ritual studies, this volume supplies a need for studies of public worship that take into account the multidisciplinary and innovative research in ritual studies while dealing with basic issues of religious studies and theology. The contributing authors share an action-oriented and empirical interest in ritual studies while not losing sight of perennial and normative questions that characterize the study of liturgy. Thus, a valuable discourse unfolds that opens up new opportunities for worship research in ritual studies. Contributers are: Johannes van der Ven, Ronald Grimes, Chris Hermans, Jacques Janssen, Jean-Pierre Wils, Georg Essen, Aad de Jong, Thomas Quartier, Remco Robinson, Lieve Gommers, Irene Houwer, and Hans Schilderman.

Table of Contents

Liturgical studies from a ritual studies perspective / Hans Schilderman -- Religion, morality and ritual in evolutionary perspective / Johannes A. van der Ven -- Towards a liturgical theory of the incarnated mind: a non-reductive naturalist view / C.A.M. Hermans, J. Janssen, L. Gommers & I. Houwer -- Liturgical action from a language perspective : about performance and performatives in liturgy / Aad de Jong -- Ritual, performance, and the sequestering of sacred space / Ronald L. Grimes -- Matrimony : values and ritual : an empirical study of the relation between matrimonial values and notions about the form of ecclesiastic marriage rites / Remco Robinson and Hans Schilderman -- Roman Catholic funeral liturgy and human finitude: empirical explorations of life, death and afterlife in connection with liturgical memory / Thomas Quartier & Chris A.M. Hermans -- Ministry as a ritual profession / Hans Schilderman -- From ritual to hermeneutics : an exploration with ethical intent / Jean-Pierre Wils -- "Can yesterday get better?" : the trouble with memory and the gift of the Eucharist : systematic-theological reflections on the presence of the past / Georg Essen.