Foundations in Ritual Studies A Reader for Students of Christian Worship

Name: Foundations in Ritual Studies A Reader for Students of Christian Worship
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ISBN: 9780801034992

ISBN-10: 080103499X

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Authors: Paul Bradshaw, John Melloh

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The new field of ritual studies applies anthropological methodology to the study of religious actions. The first collection of its kind, Foundations in Ritual Studies offers students of Christian liturgy fresh insights from specialists in anthropology, religious studies, and Christian liturgy. The list of contributors includes Romano Guardini, Mark Seale, John Witvliet, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Nathan Mitchell, Ronald Grimes, Catherine Bell, Margaret Mary Kelleher, and Herbert Fingarette. This one-volume collection makes their landmark contributions available to professors, graduate students, theologians, and biblical scholars.

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

John Melloh (PhD, St. Louis University) is director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgies at the University of Notre Dame.



Preface


Acknowledgements



Context






An open letter






Ritual






For our own purposes: the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies



Classical Views






Purity and Danger


Natural Symbols






Liminality and communitas


The Forest of Symbols



The Field of Ritual






New directions in ritual research






Modes of ritual sensibility


Liturgical supinity, liturgical erectitude: on the embodiment of ritual authority






Ritual, change, and changing rituals


The authority of ritual experts



Method






Liturgical theology: a task and a method


Author index


Subject index