Ritual
Perspectives and Dimensions
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-988990-7
- EAN: 9780199889907
- Produktnummer: 13873581
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'793 KB
Über den Autor
Former Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University
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