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- catalog abstract "Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.".
- catalog contributor b9712038.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index.".
- catalog description "Theories: The History of Interpretation -- Myth or Ritual: Questions of Origin and Essence -- Early Theories and Theorists -- The Myth and Ritual Schools -- The Phenomenology of Religions -- Psychoanalytic Approaches to Ritual -- Profile: Interpreting the Akitu Festival -- Ritual and Society: Questions of Social Function and Structure -- Early Theories of Social Solidarity -- Functionalism -- Neofunctional Systems Analyses -- Structuralism -- Magic, Religion, and Science -- Profile: Interpreting the Mukanda Initiation -- Ritual Symbols, Syntax, and Praxis: Questions of Cultural Meaning and Interpretation -- Symbolic Systems and Symbolic Action -- Linguistics -- Performance -- Practice -- Profile: Interpreting British and Swazi Enthronement Rites -- Rites: The Spectrum of Ritual Activities -- Basic Genres of Ritual Action -- Rites of Passage -- Calendrical Rites -- Rites of Exchange and Communion -- Rites of Affliction -- Feasting, Fasting, and Festivals -- Political Rites -- Characteristics of Ritual-like Activities -- Formalism -- Traditionalism -- Invariance -- Rule-Governance -- Sacral Symbolism -- Performance -- Contexts: The Fabric of Ritual Life -- Ritual Density -- Systems -- Typologies -- Orthopraxy and Orthodoxy -- Traditional and Secular -- Oral and Literate -- Church, Sect, and Cult -- Ritual Change -- Tradition and Transformation -- Ritual Invention -- Media and Message -- Ritual Reification -- Repudiating, Returning, Romancing -- The Emergence of "Ritual, "".
- catalog extent "xv, 351 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "019511051X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195110528 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "291.3/8 20".
- catalog subject "BL600 .B47 1997".
- catalog subject "BL600 .B47 1997X".
- catalog subject "Religion.".
- catalog subject "Ritual.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Theories: The History of Interpretation -- Myth or Ritual: Questions of Origin and Essence -- Early Theories and Theorists -- The Myth and Ritual Schools -- The Phenomenology of Religions -- Psychoanalytic Approaches to Ritual -- Profile: Interpreting the Akitu Festival -- Ritual and Society: Questions of Social Function and Structure -- Early Theories of Social Solidarity -- Functionalism -- Neofunctional Systems Analyses -- Structuralism -- Magic, Religion, and Science -- Profile: Interpreting the Mukanda Initiation -- Ritual Symbols, Syntax, and Praxis: Questions of Cultural Meaning and Interpretation -- Symbolic Systems and Symbolic Action -- Linguistics -- Performance -- Practice -- Profile: Interpreting British and Swazi Enthronement Rites -- Rites: The Spectrum of Ritual Activities -- Basic Genres of Ritual Action -- Rites of Passage -- Calendrical Rites -- Rites of Exchange and Communion -- Rites of Affliction -- Feasting, Fasting, and Festivals -- Political Rites -- Characteristics of Ritual-like Activities -- Formalism -- Traditionalism -- Invariance -- Rule-Governance -- Sacral Symbolism -- Performance -- Contexts: The Fabric of Ritual Life -- Ritual Density -- Systems -- Typologies -- Orthopraxy and Orthodoxy -- Traditional and Secular -- Oral and Literate -- Church, Sect, and Cult -- Ritual Change -- Tradition and Transformation -- Ritual Invention -- Media and Message -- Ritual Reification -- Repudiating, Returning, Romancing -- The Emergence of "Ritual, "".
- catalog title "Ritual : perspectives and dimensions / Catherine Bell.".
- catalog type "text".