Understanding religious ritual
Subtitle: theoretical approaches and innovations
By: edited by John P. Hoffmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415781671; 9780203840191
Subjects: Ritual
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Improving our understanding of religious ritual / by John P. Hoffmann; title: Transformations : the social construciton of religious ritual / by Timothy J. Nelson; title: The ritual production of belonging and belief : Darwinian flesh for Durkheimian bones / by Douglas A. Marshall; title: Experience, subjectivity and performance : an anthropological approach to pentecostal rituals based on the body / by Geraldine Mossiere; title: Ritual texts : languages and action in ritual / by Jorgen Podemann Sorensen; title: A psychological functionalist perspective on a forgiveness ritual / by Elizabeth A. Gassin; title: Making it look right : ritual as a form of communication / by Daniel B. Lee; title: Applying practise-oriented approaches to Islamic purification and prayer / by Kate Ostergaard; title: Centered in time : a sociological phenomenology of religious rituals / by James V. Spickard; title: Mongolian livestock rituals : appropriations, adaptations, and transformations / by Vesna A. Wallace; title: "Don't forget home" : the importance of sacred ritual in families / by Loren D. Marks and David Dollahite; title: The ritual economy in modern Malaysia / by Johan Fischer.