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1 online resource (ix, 193 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford ritual studies
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Oxford ritual studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies. For "modern" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are widely thought of as merely symbolic or expressive, so that - by definition - they cannot be efficacious. Nevertheless people in many cultures assume that rituals do indeed "work," |
| Contents |
Contributors; 1. Ritual and the Problem of Efficacy; 2. Ritual Healing and the Investiture of the Babylonian King; 3. Jesus and his Followers as Healers: Symbolic Healing in Early Christianity; 4. Healing Rituals in the Mediaeval West; 5. Excommunication in the Middle Ages: A Meta-Ritual and the Many Faces of Its Efficacy; 6. The Work of Zâr: Women and Spirit Possession in Northern Sudan; 7. Ritual Humility in Modern Laboratories: Or, Why Ecuadorian IVF Practitioners Pray; 8. Ritual, Medicine, and the Placebo Response; 9. Bell, Bourdieu, and Wittgenstein on Ritual Sense; Index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ritual.
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Ritual. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sax, William Sturman, 1957-
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Quack, Johannes.
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Weinhold, Jan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Problem of ritual efficacy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195394412 |
| ISBN |
9780199742363 (electronic book) |
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0199742367 (electronic book) |
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9780195394405 |
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0195394402 |
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9780195394412 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195394410 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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