Understanding religious ritual : theoretical approaches and innovations /
Hoffmann, John P.(John Patrick),1962-
Abingdon ; New York : Routledge,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Improving our understanding of religious ritual / by John P. Hoffmann -- Transformations : the social construciton of religious ritual / by Timothy J. Nelson -- The ritual production of belonging and belief : Darwinian flesh for Durkheimian bones / by Douglas A. Marshall -- Experience, subjectivity and performance : an anthropological approach to pentecostal rituals based on the body / by Geraldine Mossiere -- Ritual texts : languages and action in ritual / by Jorgen Podemann Sorensen -- A psychological functionalist perspective on a forgiveness ritual / by Elizabeth A. Gassin -- Making it look right : ritual as a form of communication / by Daniel B. Lee -- Applying practise-oriented approaches to Islamic purification and prayer / by Kate Ostergaard -- Centered in time : a sociological phenomenology of religious rituals / by James V. Spickard -- Mongolian livestock rituals : appropriations, adaptations, and transformations / by Vesna A. Wallace -- "Don't forget home" : the importance of sacred ritual in families / by Loren D. Marks and David Dollahite -- The ritual economy in modern Malaysia / by Johan Fischer.
Ritual.