Ritual Criticism Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory - Couverture rigide

Grimes, Ronald L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0872496929 ISBN 13 : 9780872496927

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 1990

Synopsis

The author presents a series of case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another and focuses on those rituals that are not always explicitly or obviously religious. The rites discussed by the author include a Roman Catholic liturgy and the excavation of burial remains.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a topic seldom written about: the evaluation of rites. Enacting ritual and thinking critically are often imagined as mutually exclusive activities, but Ritual Criticism demonstrates their complementarity by presenting case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another. The cases are drawn from contemporary, urban, North American social contexts in which specific rites are undergoing evaluation, interpretation, or revision. The cases eventuate in essays, more theoretical treatments of critical issues in ritual studies. The rituals studied are as varied as the strategies utilized. The diversity of approaches illustrates the ways criticism shifts as types of ritual vary. One rite is a traditional liturgy; another is invented rather than traditional; a third is a hybrid ritual drama; and in a fourth instance the ritualization is so tacit that some would deny that it is ritual at all. Many of the contexts that provide data for the chapters are typified by syncretism, the eclectic mixing and matching of ritual elements from diverse traditions. Other examples involve attempts to engage in ritual invention and experimentation. The essays are likewise diverse, taking readers into territories traditionally the purview of several disciplines. Drama, literature, education, psychology, medicine, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology are traversed in this effort to understand ritual, an unusually complex genre of human activity.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ronald L. Grimes is author of several books on ritual, including Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts and Deeply into the Bone: Reinventing Rites of Passage. He is co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series and of the volume, Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Most recently, Grimes was Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, and ISM Fellow at Yale University. Previously, he was Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). Currently, he resides in Canada and is Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0872496929
• ISBN 13: 9780872496927
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 283
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible