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Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195301427
Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Ritual
ISBN : 019936916X
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 : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195301434
Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 1453752625
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 : Pearson
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004105426
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,Ute Husken,Udo Simon,Eric Venbrux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199831300
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,Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture Ronald L Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : North America
ISBN : 1453758240
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 : [Chicago] : American Theological Library Association ; Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000005551127
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190207809
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.
Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199760381
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 : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134282555
This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance. With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Pastoral Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000045755778
This collection of studies on ritual and ritualizing leads the reader through religious
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520236752
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 : Joseph D. Calabrese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199927838
Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC). The NAC arose in the nineteenth century in response to the creation of the reservation system and increasing societal ills, including alcoholism. The movement is the locus of a cultural conflict with a long history in North America and stirs very strong and often opposed emotions and moral interpretations. Joseph D. Calabrese describes the Peyote Ceremony as it is used in family contexts and federally funded clinical programs for Native American patients. He uses an interdisciplinary methodology that he calls clinical ethnography: an approach to research that involves clinically informed and self-reflective immersion in local worlds of suffering, healing, and normality. Calabrese combined immersive fieldwork among NAC members in their communities with a year of clinical work at a Navajo-run treatment program for adolescents with severe substance abuse and associated mental health problems. There he had the unique opportunity to provide conventional therapeutic intervention alongside Native American therapists who were treating the very problems that the NAC addresses through ritual. Calabrese argues that if people respond better to clinical interventions that are relevant to their society's unique cultural adaptations and ideologies (as seems to be the case with the NAC), then preventing ethnic minorities from accessing traditional ritual forms of healing may actually constitute a human rights violation.
Author : T. M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0674663241
To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Luhrmann immersed herself in the arcane world of Londoners who call themselves magicians. Her report is as fascinating as the esoteric world itself. Illustrated.