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008 110308s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBL600$b.U53 2012
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245 00 $aUnderstanding religious ritual :$btheoretical approaches and innovations /$cedited by John P. Hoffmann.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012.
300 $axiii, 226 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. Improving our understanding of religious ritual / by John P. Hoffmann -- Transformations : the social construciton of religious ritual / by Timothy J. Nelson -- The ritual production of belonging and belief : Darwinian flesh for Durkheimian bones / by Douglas A. Marshall -- Experience, subjectivity and performance : an anthropological approach to pentecostal rituals based on the body / by Geraldine Mossiere -- Ritual texts : languages and action in ritual / by Jorgen Podemann Sorensen -- A psychological functionalist perspective on a forgiveness ritual / by Elizabeth A. Gassin -- Making it look right : ritual as a form of communication / by Daniel B. Lee -- Applying practise-oriented approaches to Islamic purification and prayer / by Kate Ostergaard -- Centered in time : a sociological phenomenology of religious rituals / by James V. Spickard -- Mongolian livestock rituals : appropriations, adaptations, and transformations / by Vesna A. Wallace -- "Don't forget home" : the importance of sacred ritual in families / by Loren D. Marks and David Dollahite -- The ritual economy in modern Malaysia / by Johan Fischer.
650 0 $aRitual.
700 1 $aHoffmann, John P.$q(John Patrick),$d1962-