Understanding Religious Ritual : Theoretical approaches and innovations

ISBN-13: 9780415781671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

John Hoffmann

Opis

This text represents contributions from leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.

Spis treści

Introduction: Improving our Understanding of Religious Ritual  1. Transformations: The Social Construciton of Religious Ritual  2. The Ritual Production of Belonging and Belief: Darwinian Flesh for Durkheimian Bones  3. Experience, Subjectivity and Performance: An Anthropological Approach to Pentecostal Rituals Based on the Body  4. Ritual Texts: Languages and Action in Ritual  5. A Psychological Functionalist Perspective on a Forgiveness Ritual  6. Making It Look Right: Ritual as a Form of Communication  7. Applying Practise-Oriented Approaches to Islamic Purification and Prayer  8. Centered in Time: A Sociological Phenomenology of Religious Rituals  9. Mongolian Livestock Rituals: Appropriations, Adaptations, and Transformations  10. 'Don’t Forget Home': The Importance of Sacred Ritual in Families  11. The Ritual Economy in Modern Malaysia

O autorze

John P. Hoffmann is Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University. His research interests includethe influence of religious practices on behaviours and attitudes. He has also studied western religions in Japan. His most recent books include Japanese Saints and Revisiting Thomas F. O’Dea’s The Mormons.