Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts.

Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches...

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Main Author: Jens Kreinath; J.A.M. Snoek; Michael Stausberg

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2006.

Series: Numen Book Series 114/1.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BL600 .T44 2008

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Jens Kreinath , Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg
  • Defining 'Rituals' /
  • Jan A.M. Snoek
  • Ritual and Other Forms of Social Action /
  • Dietrich Harth
  • Conceptual Alternatives to 'Ritual' /
  • Don Handelman
  • 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective /
  • Michael Stausberg
  • Myth and Ritual /
  • Robert A. Segal
  • Ritual and Psyche /
  • Barbara Boudewijnse
  • Ritual in Society /
  • Ursula Rao
  • Ritual: Religious and Secular /
  • Jan G. Platvoet
  • Structure, Process, Form /
  • Terence Turner
  • Ritual and Meaning /
  • Axel Michaels
  • Action /
  • James Laidlaw and Caroline Humphrey
  • Aesthetics /
  • Ron G. Williams and James W. Boyd
  • Cognition /
  • E. Thomas Lawson
  • Communication /
  • Günter Thomas
  • Ethology /
  • Dorothea Baudy
  • Gender /
  • Rosalind C. Morris
  • Performance /
  • Ronald L. Grimes
  • Praxis /
  • Christoph Wulf
  • Relationality /
  • Michael Houseman
  • Semiotics /
  • Jens Kreinath
  • Agency /
  • William S. Sax
  • Complexity /
  • Burkhard Gladigow
  • Deference /
  • Maurice Bloch
  • Dynamics /
  • Bruce Kapferer
  • Efficacy /
  • Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
  • Embodiment /
  • Catherine Bell
  • Emotion /
  • Dorothea Lüddeckens
  • Framing /
  • Don Handelman
  • Language /
  • Carlo Severi
  • Media /
  • Felicia Hughes-Freeland
  • Participation /
  • Edward L. Schieffelin
  • Reflexivity /
  • Michael Stausberg
  • Rhetorics /
  • James W. Fernandez
  • Transmission /
  • Harvey Whitehouse
  • Virtuality /
  • Bruce Kapferer
  • An Invitation to 'Theorizing' Theorizing Rituals: Some Suggestions for Using the Indexes /
  • Florian Jeserich
  • Index of Names /
  • Florian Jeserich
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Florian Jeserich
  • References /
  • Jens Kreinath , Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg.