Ritual category: 1070 books
by Ronald L. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
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....
Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Although the relationship of the Hebrew Bible and violence has been of interest to scholars in recent years, ritual violence in its various manifestations has been underexplored, as have been the theoretical dimensions of ritual violence. This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range...
Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue
Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Shared ritual practices, multi-faith celebrations, and interreligious prayers are becoming increasingly common in the USA and Europe as more people experience religious diversity first hand. While ritual participation can be seen as a powerful expression of interreligious solidarity, it also carries...
Rite out of Place
Ritual, Media, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
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...
by Timothy D. Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various kinds of Christian rituals with respect to how rituals influence the formational processes of a congregation’s...
by Malcolm C. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Duncan's Masonic Ritual And Monitor
by Malcolm C. Duncan
"This book presents details of Masonic initiation rituals, along with grips, passwords and regalia. Written in the 19th century, Duncan's Ritual, as it is known, has been republished numerous times. It includes the three basic degrees...
From Altar-Throne to Table
The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received...
Coming to the Edge of the Circle
A Wiccan Initiation Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony....
Caring Liturgies
The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of...
Open Your Heart
Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Based on in-depth interviews...
Singing the Rite to Belong
Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting Ireland's...
When I Was a Child
Children's Interpretations of First Communion
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually...
African American Christian Worship
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this update to her 1993 classic, African American Christian Worship, Melva Wilson Costen, again delights her reader with a lively history and theology of the African American worship experience. Drawing upon careful scholarship and engaging stories, Dr. Costen details the global impact on African...
Creating Church Online
Ritual, Community and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations, generating new kinds of ritual,...