The dynamics of changing rituals: the transformation of religious rituals within their social and cultural context

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Other Authors: Kreinath, Jens (Editor) , Hartung, Constance (Other) , Deschner, Annette (Other)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: New York, NY [u.a.] Lang 2004
Series:Toronto studies in religion 29
In: Toronto studies in religion (29)

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Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003011715.html
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Author Notes:Jens Kreinath, Constance Hartung, & Annette Deschner, eds.
Table of Contents:
  • Re-framing ritual / Don Handelman
  • Contemporary carnival (carnaval) in Asturias : visual figuration as a 'ritual' of parodic release and democratic revitalization / James W. Fernandez
  • Rituals of rebellion--rebellion as a ritual : a theory reconsidered / Susanne Schröter
  • Communion, community, and the challenge of radical religion in seventeenth-century England / Achsah Guibbory
  • Artaud's holy theatre : a case for questioning the relations between ritual and stage performance / Dietrich Harth
  • Balinese temple dances and ritual transformations in the process of modernization / Annette Rein
  • Failure of performance or passage to the acting self? : Mishima's suicide between ritual and theatre / Klaus-Peter Köpping
  • Changing media--changing rituals : media rituals and the transformation of physical presence / Gunter Thomas
  • The incorporation of portraits into Chinese ancestral rites / Patricia B. Ebrey
  • Transgenerational changes : the social process of transmitting oral ritual texts among the Rai in East Nepal / Martin Gaenszle
  • Politics of acculturation : the dynamics of Hindu-Christian ritual in Goa/India / Alexander Henn
  • Athens and Delos in the fifth century B.C. : ritual in a world of shifting allegiances / William D. Furley
  • Shifts in place and meaning : the history of two cult centers in pre-colonial Tanzania / Peter Weber
  • Considerations when killing a witch : developments in exorcistic attitudes to witchcraft in Mesopotamia / Tzvi Abusch
  • Rituals between tradition and change : the Vatican II / Andreas Odenthal
  • Expressive appropriateness and pluralism : the example of Catholic liturgy after Vatican II / Matthias Jung
  • Patterns of ritual change among parsi-Zoroastrians in recent times / Michael Stausberg
  • Ritual as war : on the need to de-Westernize the concept / Jan G. Platvoet
  • Theoretical afterthoughts / Jens Kreinath