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Ritual - Perspectives and Dimensions (Paperback)
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Ritual - Perspectives and Dimensions (Paperback)
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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 and
their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate
interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical
and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a
practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she
surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the
major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have
shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down
ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her
purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help
us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency,
and self- expression that goes into constructing this complex
social medium.
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