About this title: Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes rituals as merely external signs of interior states. This approach, say the authors, is part of a far larger way of relating to the self and to the world, which they label "sincerity." But ritual, they say, is the very ...
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195336016ISBN:0195336011
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195336016ISBN:0195336011
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 235x156 mm. (246) this book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual. drawing on examples from chinese, greek, jewish, and contemporary culture, the book presents an innovative interdisciplinary account of how ritual works. (Paperback) read more
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Date Published: 2008
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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