Author: Gerald A. Klingbeil
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Keywords: ritual, bible, texts, bridging, gap
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 157506801X
ISBN-13: 9781575068015

This volume is intended to introduce university and seminary students and scholars to the neglected field of ritual studies, particularly within the larger context of biblical and theological studies. At the same time, the author hopes to further the discussion by interacting with numerous scholars in the field, providing an extensive bibliography of relevant works. Klingbeil defines the basic terms used in ritual studies and explains the concepts involved in interpreting biblical ritual. He offers a broad history of the study of biblical ritual, beginning with the critiques of ritual found in

Author: R. L. Grimes
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: ritual, liturgia, condenda, repertoire, emerging, explorations, disaster
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2003-07
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 904291291X
ISBN-13: 9789042912915

People increasingly look to rituals after a disaster. A silent procession and a memorial service are carefully and observantly organised, preparations are begun for a lasting monument in memory of the victims, or people keep up the tradition of an annual commemoration. Remarkably enough, this ritual repertoire has received hardly any attention from researchers. This book is a report on the first exploration of these rituals which emerged particularly in the 1990s. The exploration focuses on the situation in the Netherlands. From the case studies analyzed a strikingly coherent and well-organise

Author: Catherine Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ritual, practice, theory
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1992-01-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195076133
ISBN-13: 9780195076134

Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close theoretical analysis of recent developments in ritual studies, concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and history of religions. She begins by showing how discourse on ritual has served to generate and legitimate a limited and ultimately closed form of cultural analysis. She then proposes that so-called ritual activities be removed from their isolated position as special, paradigmatic acts and restored to the context of "social activity" in general. Using the term "ritualization" to describe ritu

Author: Catherine Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ritual, practice, theory
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-12-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0199733627
ISBN-13: 9780199733620

Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell’s sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell’s work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.

Authors:William Sax, Johannes Quack, Jan Weinhold,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ritual, series, studies, efficacy, problem, oxford
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2010-01-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195394410
ISBN-13: 9780195394412

How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies.For "modern" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are widely thought of as merely symbolic or expressive, so that - by definition - they cannot be efficacious. Nevertheless people in many cultures assume that rituals do indeed "work," and when we take a c

Author: Charles E. Cohoughlyn-Burroughs
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: ritual, used, england, craft, oldest, masonic, bristol, unique
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2004-05-06
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1417915668
ISBN-13: 9781417915668

Bristol Masonry is unlike anything seen elsewhere in England. In the first degree alone one witnesses unusual ceremonies and hears statements which will surprise even the well-read Mason. Have you ever heard "the Nile, the Ganges, the Euphrates, [and the] Mississippi" mentioned in an Entered Apprentice degree? How about "the immeasurable wilds of the scattered Indian tribes across the mighty Atlantic...the wandering Arabs, roaming tartars, or far distant Chinese"? Have you ever seen the "circle of swords," the "cup of affliction" or the "writing test" given to an Entered Apprentice? It is all

Author: Mo Hayder
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: novel, ritual
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0871139928
ISBN-13: 9780871139924

Mo Hayder’s previous novels The Devil of Nanking and The Treatment have ranked her among the most exciting and provocative thriller writers now working. In her latest, Ritual, Hayder gives us a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures.Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there’s no body attached is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing