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Ritual Gone Wrong - What We Learn from Ritual Disruption (Hardcover)
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Ritual Gone Wrong - What We Learn from Ritual Disruption (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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The discipline of religious studies has, historically, tended to
focus on discrete ritual mistakes that occur in the context of
individual performances outlined in ethnographic or sociological
studies, and scholars have largely dismissed the fact that there
are extensive discussions of ritual mistakes in many indigenous
traditions' religious literature. And yet ritual mistakes (ranging
from the simple to the complex) happen all the time, and they
continue to carry ritual "weight," even when no one seriously
doubts their impact on the efficacy of a ritual. In Ritual Gone
Wrong, Kathryn McClymond approaches ritual mistakes as an integral
part of ritual life and argues that religious traditions can
accommodate mistakes and are often prepared for them. McClymond
shows that many traditions even incorporate the regular occurrence
of errors into their ritual systems, developing a substantial
literature on how rituals can be disrupted, how these disruptions
can be addressed, and when disruptions have gone too far. Using a
series of case studies ranging from ancient India to modern day
Iraq, and from medieval allegations of child sacrifice to
contemporary Olympic ceremonies, McClymond explores the numerous
ways in which ritual can go wrong, and demonstrates that the ritual
is by nature fluid, supple, and dynamic-simultaneously adapting to
socio-cultural conditions and, in some cases, shaping them.
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