Foundations in ritual studies : a reader for students of Christian worship / edited by Paul Bradshaw and John Melloh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2007.Description: ix, 228 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780801034992 (pbk.)
  • 080103499X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 264 B729f
Contents:
An open letter / Romano Guardini -- Ritual / Mark Searle -- For our own purposes : the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies / John D. Witvliet -- Purity and danger ; Natural symbols / Mary Douglas -- Liminality and communitas ; The forest of symbols / Victor Turner -- New directions in ritual research / Nathan D. Mitchell -- Modes of ritual sensibility ; Liturgical supinity, liturgical erectitude : on the embodiment of ritual authority / Ronald L. Grimes -- Ritual, change, and changing rituals ; The authority of ritual experts / Catherine Bell -- Liturgical theology : a task and a method / Margaret Mary Kelleher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

An open letter / Romano Guardini -- Ritual / Mark Searle -- For our own purposes : the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies / John D. Witvliet -- Purity and danger ; Natural symbols / Mary Douglas -- Liminality and communitas ; The forest of symbols / Victor Turner -- New directions in ritual research / Nathan D. Mitchell -- Modes of ritual sensibility ; Liturgical supinity, liturgical erectitude : on the embodiment of ritual authority / Ronald L. Grimes -- Ritual, change, and changing rituals ; The authority of ritual experts / Catherine Bell -- Liturgical theology : a task and a method / Margaret Mary Kelleher.

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