Readings in Ritual Studies
Title | Readings in Ritual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | Pearson |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
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.
Research in Ritual Studies
Title | Research in Ritual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | [Chicago] : American Theological Library Association ; Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Religion |
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Beginnings in Ritual Studies
Title | Beginnings in Ritual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Performing arts |
ISBN | 9781453752623 |
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.
Deeply Into the Bone
Title | Deeply Into the Bone PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2002-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520236750 |
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.
Foundations in Ritual Studies
Title | Foundations in Ritual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bradshaw |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780801034992 |
The new field of ritual studies applies anthropological methodology to the study of religious actions. The first collection of its kind, Foundations in Ritual Studies offers students of Christian liturgy fresh insights from specialists in anthropology, religious studies, and Christian liturgy. The list of contributors includes Romano Guardini, Mark Seale, John Witvliet, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Nathan Mitchell, Ronald Grimes, Catherine Bell, Margaret Mary Kelleher, and Herbert Fingarette. This one-volume collection makes their landmark contributions available to professors, graduate students, theologians, and biblical scholars.
Rite out of Place
Title | Rite out of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2006-08-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190207809 |
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.
Proclaiming Holy Scriptures
Title | Proclaiming Holy Scriptures PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Pereyra |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2020-12-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1000329887 |
This book provides a comprehensive study on the proclamation of Holy Scriptures as an enacted celebration, as well as its function as a performance within sacralized theatrical spaces. Scripture is integral to religious life within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and these traditions have venerated the reading of texts from an appointed place as a sacred act. Thus, the study of how these readings are conducted illuminates some vitally important aspects of this widespread act of worship. Contributing to an underexplored area of scholarship, the book offers an overview of scripture reading in the three Abrahamic faiths and then focuses on where and how the “Word of God” is presented within the Christian tradition. It gathers and summarizes research on the origins of a defined place for the proclamation of holy writings, giving a thorough architectural analysis and interpretation of the various uses and symbols related to these spaces over time. Finally, the listener is considered with a phenomenological description of the place for reading and its hermeneutical interpretation. The material in this book uncovers the contemporary impact of a rich history of publicly reading out scriptures. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of liturgical theology, religious studies, and ritual studies.