Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- part I: Ritual Pathways -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritualizing: The Animals Do It and So Do We -- 3. Modern Warfare: The Loss of Ritual Pathways -- 4. Priest and Shaman: Two Pathways of Religious Ritua...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Milton
Routledge
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780367010454 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- part I: Ritual Pathways -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritualizing: The Animals Do It and So Do We -- 3. Modern Warfare: The Loss of Ritual Pathways -- 4. Priest and Shaman: Two Pathways of Religious Ritual -- part II: Modalities of Performance -- 5. Ritual, Theater, and Sacrifice -- 6. Ritual's Two Siblings: Performance in the Confessional and the Ethical Modes -- part III: Ritual's Social Gifts -- 7. Order -- 8. Community -- 9. Transformation -- CONCLUSION -- 10. Christian Sacraments as the Performance of Freedom -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A. A Communion Sermon -- Appendix B. Some Points in Criticism of Victor Turner -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-429-69108-9 |
