Skip to content

Craft of Ritual Studies

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0195301439

ISBN-13: 9780195301434

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ronald L. Grimes

Shipping box This item qualifies for FREE shipping.
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods.The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual enactments. Grimes first exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual--for example, defining…    
Customers also bought

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

List of Figures and Tables
List of Lists
List of Videos and Online Materials
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Method
Performing Research and Teaching
John Bourke as a Student of Ritual
From Symbol and Conquest to the Craft of Ritual Studies
Fieldworking Ritual
Preparing
The Field
Negotiating
Participant Observation
Interviewing
Reading, Writing, and Mediatizing Ritual
Writing
Description
Narration and Dialogue
Argumentation
Explanation and Interpretation
Ritual Criticism
Publishing and Presenting
The Media of Studying Ritual
Case
Filming Fiesta
Sights and Sounds of the Santa Fe Fiesta
The Santa Fe Fiesta, 2007
The Spring Events
Fiesta Begins
Fiesta Proclamations
The Entrada
Parades and the Queen�s Audience
The Fiesta Melodrama
The Pontifical Mass and the Mass of Thanksgiving
Candlelight Procession
Aaron's Zozobra
Behind the Scenes of the Santa Fe Fiesta
Ritual Criticism and the Santa Fe Fiesta
Field and Home in Ritual Studies
Framing Fiesta
The Spanish Reconquest, 711-1492
Ceremonies of Possession
The Conquest of Mexico, 1519-1521
The Conquest of New Mexico, 1598
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
The Ritual Reconquest of Santa Fe, 1692
The Military Reconquests of Santafe, 1693 and 1696
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Festivity, American Pageantry, and the Myth of Santa Fe: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Contours of Fiesta History
Theory
Theorizing Ritual
The Meaning of "Theory"
Working with Theories
Testing Theories
Constructing Theories
Defining and Classifying Ritual
Using the Term "Ritual"
Examples of Scholarly Definitions
Classifying Rituals
Ritual Modes
Comparing Rituals
Mapping Ritual
Ritual and Sport
Ritual and Music
Ritual and Theater
Ritual as a Domain
Elements of Ritual
Ritual Actions
Ritual Actors
Ritual Places
Ritual Times
Ritual Objects
Ritual Languages
Ritual Groups
Ritual Structures and Processes
Elements and Domains
Dynamics of Ritual
What Rituals Do
Rituals Empower and Disempower Groups
Rituals Attune and Disattune Bodies
Rituals Reinforce the Status Quo and Enact Transformation
Rituals Make and Unmake Meaning
Modeling Ritual
Reimagining Theory and Method
Glossary
Sources Cited
Notes
Index