Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

Ritual Perspectives and Dimensions

✍ Bell, Catherine 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

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 Perspectives and Dimensions

📁 Ritual Perspectives and Dimensions

✍ Bell, Catherine;Aslan, Reza 📂 Library 📅 2009;1997 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

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: Perspectives and Dimensions--Rev

📁 Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

✍ Catherine Bell 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

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

Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dim

📁 Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

✍ Saul M. Olyan 📂 Library 📅 2004 🌐 English

A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry

Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Sign

📁 Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory

✍ Axel Michaels 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Is the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than people of other faiths and other places? If so, what makes them special? Can we speak of a homo ritualis when it comes to India or Hinduism? Drawing on extensive textua

Homo ritualis : Hindu ritual and its sig

📁 Homo ritualis : Hindu ritual and its significance to ritual theory

✍ Michaels, Axel 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Is the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than people of other faiths and other places? If so, what makes them special? Can we speak of a <em>homo ritualis</em> when it comes to India or Hinduism? <br><br>Drawing on