The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies

Edited by two of the most prominent Ritual Studies researchers active today, this volume should serve as an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the field for years to come. Pamela J. Stewart is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Andrew J. Str...

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Other Authors: Stewart, Pamela J. (Editor), Strathern, Andrew J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ritual Studies: Whence and Where to? (Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart)
  • 2. Ritual Dream Sharing and Charismatic Church Routinization (Roger Ivar Lohmann)
  • 3. Sacrifices in the Ancient World: Research on Complex Rituals (Günther Schörner)
  • 4. Economic Thought, Ritual and Religion (Thomas Widlok)
  • 5. Thanks For Your Visit, But You Can Go Now: Cortesia, hospitality and rites of distinction in Angola (Ruy Llera Blanes)
  • 6. Formulas of Home: On the religious performance of personal rituals (Nigel Rapport)
  • 7. Contesting Masculinity and Ritual Embodiment in Youth Baseball (John W. Traphagan)
  • 8. Ritual, Performance and Cognition (Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart)
  • 9. Grave-visiting rituals in Northwestern Europe (Anne Kjærsgaard and Eric Venbrux)
  • 10. The Device of the Spirit Medium for connecting Humans to the Supernatural: A Case Study of Shamanic Healing in the Qorčin Region of Inner Mongolia, China (Saijirahu Buyanchugla)
  • 11. Empathy and Ritual Practices (Anne Sigfrid Grønseth)
  • 12. Ritual, Place, and Experience in Hindu Home-temple Visitation (Sanjoy Mazumdar and Shampa Mazumdar)
  • 13. Designing Enchanted Rituals for Modern Man (Anne-Christine Hornborg)
  • 14. Mo(nu)ments of Vulnerability: The Centrality of Ritual Creativity in Pilgrimages to Catholic Shrines in France and Portugal (Anna Fedele)
  • 15. Rituals Surrounding Sorcery and Witchcraft in Traditional Societies: Issues for Researchers (G.W. Trompf)
  • 16. On the Partiality of Pentecostal Ritual (Simon Coleman)
  • 17. Infrastructures of Interrituality and the Aesthetics of Saint Veneration Rituals among Orthodox Christians and Arab Alawites in Hatay (Jens Kreinath)
  • 18. Moka (ceremonial exchange) with Death (Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern).