Rituals in an Unstable World
Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment
Refuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim), intelligibility (Geertz) and dialectics (Turner). Instead, it shows that rituals assert their significance in the post-colonial and globalizing world by successfully negotiating structure and contingency, identity and hybridity, script and embodiment. Its case studies are dealing with a broad variety of ritual genres and expressions, including initiation ceremonies and spirit possession, new h…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Koepping, Klaus-Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-631-57393-8
- EAN: 9783631573938
- Produktnummer: 19895301
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.8 cm 441 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 441
Über den Autor
The Editors: Alexander Henn is Associate Professor at the Department for Religious Studies and the School of Global Studies at Arizona State University in Phoenix (USA). Klaus-Peter Koepping is Emeritus Professor of the University Heidelberg and currently visiting professor at Goldsmith College, Center for Cultural Studies, at the University of London.
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