The Craft Of Ritual Studies

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195301420
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2014 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781453752623
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Beginnings in Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginnings in Ritual Studies lays the groundwork for the interdisciplinary study of ritual by broadening the conception of it and articulating its connections to a wide range of cultural activities. Accessible to scholars and students, Beginnings addresses such fundamental issues as definitions, types, and theories of ritual. The volume integrates field research and theory in considering ritual's relation to religious, civil, medical, and theatrical dimensions of culture. The first and second editions garnered widespread praise from the scholarly community and became a standard work in the burgeoning field of ritual studies. In this third edition, Grimes adds a new preface and revises the descriptive and theoretical essays that form the core of the volume.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199369164
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Craft of Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In religious studies, theory, and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. This title melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural interdisciplinary study of ritual enactments.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive collection of articles on ritual ever assembled. The book includes selections by internationally known scholars such as Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz, as well as innovative piece s that illustrate the extraordinary interdisciplinary range of contemporary ritual studies. Grimes has drawn readings from the entire range of ritual--encompassing its secular, political and dramatic expressions as well as its religious ones.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199831302
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Ritual, Media, and Conflict written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : [Chicago] : American Theological Library Association ; Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research in Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by [Chicago] : American Theological Library Association ; Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781453758243
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Download or read book Ritual Criticism written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a topic seldom written about: the evaluation of rites. Enacting ritual and thinking critically are often imagined as mutually exclusive activities, but Ritual Criticism demonstrates their complementarity by presenting case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another. The cases are drawn from contemporary, urban, North American social contexts in which specific rites are undergoing evaluation, interpretation, or revision. The cases eventuate in essays, more theoretical treatments of critical issues in ritual studies. The rituals studied are as varied as the strategies utilized. The diversity of approaches illustrates the ways criticism shifts as types of ritual vary. One rite is a traditional liturgy; another is invented rather than traditional; a third is a hybrid ritual drama; and in a fourth instance the ritualization is so tacit that some would deny that it is ritual at all. Many of the contexts that provide data for the chapters are typified by syncretism, the eclectic mixing and matching of ritual elements from diverse traditions. Other examples involve attempts to engage in ritual invention and experimentation. The essays are likewise diverse, taking readers into territories traditionally the purview of several disciplines. Drama, literature, education, psychology, medicine, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology are traversed in this effort to understand ritual, an unusually complex genre of human activity.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520236750
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deeply Into the Bone written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a personal, informed and cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this text illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions.

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199760381
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190207809
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rite out of Place written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.