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Ritual : perspectives and dimensions

Author: Catherine M Bell
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine M Bell
ISBN: 019511051X 9780195110517 0195110528 9780195110524
OCLC Number: 34912658
Description: xv, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Theories: The History of Interpretation --
Myth or Ritual: Questions of Origin and Essence --
Early Theories and Theorists --
The Myth and Ritual Schools --
The Phenomenology of Religions --
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Ritual --
Profile: Interpreting the Akitu Festival --
Ritual and Society: Questions of Social Function and Structure --
Early Theories of Social Solidarity --
Functionalism --
Neofunctional Systems Analyses --
Structuralism --
Magic, Religion, and Science --
Profile: Interpreting the Mukanda Initiation --
Ritual Symbols, Syntax, and Praxis: Questions of Cultural Meaning and Interpretation --
Symbolic Systems and Symbolic Action --
Linguistics --
Performance --
Practice --
Profile: Interpreting British and Swazi Enthronement Rites --
Rites: The Spectrum of Ritual Activities --
Basic Genres of Ritual Action --
Rites of Passage --
Calendrical Rites --
Rites of Exchange and Communion --
Rites of Affliction --
Feasting, Fasting, and Festivals --
Political Rites --
Characteristics of Ritual-like Activities --
Formalism --
Traditionalism --
Invariance --
Rule-Governance --
Sacral Symbolism --
Performance --
Contexts: The Fabric of Ritual Life --
Ritual Density --
Systems --
Typologies --
Orthopraxy and Orthodoxy --
Traditional and Secular --
Oral and Literate --
Church, Sect, and Cult --
Ritual Change --
Tradition and Transformation --
Ritual Invention --
Media and Message --
Ritual Reification --
Repudiating, Returning, Romancing --
The Emergence of "Ritual,".
Responsibility: Catherine Bell.
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Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.

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