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Ritual

By Catherine Bell

Ritual

By Catherine Bell

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From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self- expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
1997-11-20
Publication Date:
1997-12-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019511051X
ISBN13:
9780195110517
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
747 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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