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Religious and Social Ritual: Interdisciplinary Explorations

Religious and Social Ritual: Interdisciplinary Explorations

Aune, Michael B.
DeMarinis, Valerie

Paperback

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0791428265
ISBN13: 9780791428269
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 323
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Examines particular rituals (social and religious) as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations.

In Religious and Social Ritual, ten scholars examine particular rituals as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations. In so doing, they surface timely theoretical and methodological issues and engage fundamental questions such as how and why these performances and interactions do what they do. Each investigation is conducted with careful attention to cultural, cross-cultural, social, and contextual factors that make it possible to enter into the ritual participant's world and worldview. Moreover, these essays take seriously the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary emphasis of ritual studies and incorporate the historical, methodological, and autobiographical situations of their authors in responsible and graceful ways. For scholars, teachers, and students of ritual in a variety of settings, Religious and Social Ritual provides both significant scholarship and an invitation to further conversation about one of the most important topics in the contemporary study of religion and culture.

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