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Theorizing Rituals - 9789004153424

Un libro in lingua di Kreinath Jens (EDT) Snoek Joannes Augustinus Maria (EDT) Stausberg Michael (EDT) edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2006

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Having recently published an annotated bibliography of work on theories of human ritual (publish in 1998 as volume 82 of the same Numen book series on "Studies in the History of Religions"), Kreinath (Institute for Religious Studies, U. of Heidelberg, Germany), Snoek (sciences of religion, U. of Heidelberg), and Stausberg (history of religions, U. of Bergen, Norway) planned this volume as a complement that would review the key subjects of the emerging field. They present 35 chapters in all, the first four dealing with such methodological and metatheoretical issues, including definitions, the relationship between rituals and other forms of social action, conceptual alternatives to "ritual," and a lexicographic survey of terms related to ritual from an emic perspective. The next six revisit such classical topics as ritual and the psyche, the societal role of ritual, and ritual and meaning. Theoretical approaches are reviewed in chapters on action, aesthetics, cognition, communication, ethology, gender, performance, praxis, relationality, and semiotics. The remaining chapters explore paradigmatic concepts: agency, complexity, deference, dynamics, efficacy, embodiment, emotion, framing, language, media, participation, reflexivity, rhetorics, transmission, and virtuality. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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