Theorizing Rituals (2 Vols): Vol. 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts and Vol. 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory 1966-2005 - Tapa blanda

9789004153448: Theorizing Rituals (2 Vols): Vol. 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts and Vol. 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory 1966-2005

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ISBN 10: 9004153446 ISBN 13: 9789004153448

Editorial: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2006

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Theorizing Rituals underlines the importance of theory for ritual studies. It focuses on theoretical problems involved, and has the ambition to illustrate the state of the art as well as to strengthen some new perspectives in this field of research.

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"Theorizing Rituals is simply exhaustive both in the depth and breadth of contemporary scholarship represented. It is a "must use" reference work for anyone engaged in ritual studies.", Brian B. Schmidt, University of Michigan

"Consisting of nearly 1,400 pages and supported over a period of years by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Theorizing Rituals is a tour de force, a major resource for researchers in a variety of social sciences as well as the humanities. Psychologists of religion in particular would do well to familiarize themselves with it, whether or not ritual is a focus of their own work. To be gained is not only knowledge in depth of a
field, ritual studies, that has much to offer psychologists, and of a mode of scholarly discourse that psychologists might do well to adopt, but also new sensitivity to ritual as one engages in it oneself. If nothing else, one will come to appreciate what may be lost by those who reject religion as obligatory creed and mindless ritual and embrace individualistic "spirituality" instead." David M. Wulff, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts