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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34912658 Title: Ritual : perspectives and dimensions Author: Catherine M Bell Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN/ISSN: 019511051X 9780195110517 0195110528 9780195110524 OCLC:34912658

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Ritual : perspectives and dimensions

Author:	Catherine M Bell
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Catherine M Bell Find more information about:
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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