The problem of ritual efficacy
How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical...
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| Other Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2011
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=305457
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| Author Notes: | ed. by William S. Sax; Johannes Quack & Jan Weinhold |
| Summary: | How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies. For "modern" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are widely thought of as merely symbolic or expressive, so that - by definition - they cannot be efficacious. Nevertheless people in many cultures assume that rituals do indeed "work |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 9780199742363 0199742367 9780195394405 0195394402 |