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Jonathan Z. Smith's Theory of Ritual Space1

✍ Scribed by Ronald L. Grimes

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 182 KB
Volume: 29
Category: Article
ISSN: 0048-721X
DOI: 10.1006/reli.1998.0162

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✦ Synopsis

Jonathan Z. Smith's theory of ritual is influential in the field of religious studies. The theory is essentially spatial, rendering place determinative of sacrality and emphasising the incongruity between ritualised and nonritualised domains. I offer a critique of Smith's theory, showing how an extreme emphasis on place and placement distorts our view of ritual. Although I call attention to the 'actional' dimension, I argue for a theory of ritual that emphasises its multidimensionality.

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