Foundations in ritual studies : a reader for students of Christian worship /

Foundations in ritual studies : a reader for students of Christian worship / edited by Paul Bradshaw and John Melloh. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2007. - ix, 228 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

An open letter / Ritual / For our own purposes : the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies / Purity and danger ; Natural symbols / Liminality and communitas ; The forest of symbols / 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 / Liturgical theology : a task and a method / Romano Guardini -- Mark Searle -- John D. Witvliet -- Mary Douglas -- Victor Turner -- Nathan D. Mitchell -- Ronald L. Grimes -- Catherine Bell -- Margaret Mary Kelleher.

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