Liberating rites: understanding the transformative power of ritual

pt. 1. Ritual pathways. Ritualizing: the animals do it and so do we. Modern warfare: the loss of ritual pathways. Priest and shaman: two pathways of religions ritual. -- pt. 2. Modalities of performance. Ritual, theater, and sacrifice. Ritual's two siblings: performance in the confessional and...

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1. VerfasserIn: Driver, Tom Faw 1925- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
In:Jahr: 2018
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Ritual / Ritus / Ethnologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Rites and ceremonies
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
B Ritual
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Zusammenfassung:pt. 1. Ritual pathways. Ritualizing: the animals do it and so do we. Modern warfare: the loss of ritual pathways. Priest and shaman: two pathways of religions ritual. -- pt. 2. Modalities of performance. Ritual, theater, and sacrifice. Ritual's two siblings: performance in the confessional and the ethical modes -- pt. 3. Ritual's social gifts. Order. Community. Transformation. -- Conclusion. Christian sacraments as the performance of freedom. A communion sermon. Some points in criticism of Victor Turner.
This book shows how necessary ritual is to human freedom and to social processes of liberation. It aims to reflect upon the deep human longing for ritual and to interpret it in the light of our physical, social, political, sexual, moral, aesthetic, and religious existence
Beschreibung:Originally published: The magic of ritual. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1991
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-257) and index
ISBN:0429040318