The Problem of Ritual Efficacy.
This collection of 10 contributed essays is the first to explicitly address the question of ritual efficacy. The authors do not aspire to answer the question 'how do rituals work?' in a simplistic fashion, but rather to show how complex the question is. While some contributors do indeed ad...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford Ritual Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Ritual
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| Summary: | This collection of 10 contributed essays is the first to explicitly address the question of ritual efficacy. The authors do not aspire to answer the question 'how do rituals work?' in a simplistic fashion, but rather to show how complex the question is. While some contributors do indeed advance a particular theory of ritual efficacy, others ask whether the question makes any sense at all, and most show how complex it is by referring to the sociocultural environment in which it is posed, since the answer depends on who is asking the question, and what criteria they use to evaluate the efficacy of ritual. 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
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| ISBN: | 0199742367 |