Understanding religious ritual : theoretical approaches and innovations
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Understanding religious ritual : theoretical approaches and innovations
（Routledge advances in sociology, 55）
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
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"First published 2012 ... First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.
The goals of the chapters are to consider where the field currently stands in understanding religious rituals and what novel ideas can improve our knowledge about these practices; and furnish innovative applications of theory by discussing particular examples which are drawn from the authors' fieldwork. The chapters cover Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic rituals, thus providing a view of how ritual practices vary across the globe, but also how they share some important characteristics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Improving our Understanding of Religious Ritual 1. Transformations: The Social Construciton of Religious Ritual 2. The Ritual Production of Belonging and Belief: Darwinian Flesh for Durkheimian Bones 3. Experience, Subjectivity and Performance: An Anthropological Approach to Pentecostal Rituals Based on the Body 4. Ritual Texts: Languages and Action in Ritual 5. A Psychological Functionalist Perspective on a Forgiveness Ritual 6. Making It Look Right: Ritual as a Form of Communication 7. Applying Practise-Oriented Approaches to Islamic Purification and Prayer 8. Centered in Time: A Sociological Phenomenology of Religious Rituals 9. Mongolian Livestock Rituals: Appropriations, Adaptations, and Transformations 10. 'Don't Forget Home': The Importance of Sacred Ritual in Families 11. The Ritual Economy in Modern Malaysia
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