By our rites of worship
Subtitle: Latter-day Saint views on ritual in scripture, history, and practice
By: Daniel L. Belnap ; editor
Publisher: The Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Provo, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780842528412
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies; Customs and practices; Mormon Church; Doctrines; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ritual and the quest for meaning / Walter E. A. van Beek; title: Culture, cohesion, and conceptualizing the sacred / John P. Hoffmann; title: The politics of feasting in the ancient Near East / Ronan James Head; title: The eternal nature of the family in Egyptian beliefs / Michael D. Rhodes; title: The marriage of Adam and Eve : ritual and literary elements / RoseAnn Benson; title: The "ceremony of the shoe" : a ritual of God's ancient covenant people / Alonzo L. Gaskill; title: The doctrine of baptism : immersions at Qumran and the baptisms of John, the earliest Christians, and Book of Mormon peoples / Stephen D. Ricks; title: Veils of authority / Lynne Hilton Wilson; title: Reading the Gospel of Philip as a temple text / Gaye Strathearn; title: "Those who receive you not" : the rite of wiping dust off the feet / Daniel L. Belnap; title: Embodied authority : priesthood ordination and the laws of the mortal body / Aaron Reeves; title: "Pouring in oil" : the development of the modern Mormon healing ritual / Jonathan A. Stapley; title: Imaging a global religion, American style : Mormon pageantry as a ritual of community formation / Megan Sanborn Jones; title: Ritual as a process of deification / Michael D. K. Ing; title: Sisters in transition : moving from the Buna coffee ritual to Relief Society / Jennifer Brinkerhoff Platt.