Homa Variations

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Thr... Lees meer

Ritual Gone Wrong

Kathryn T McClymond

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances a... Lees meer

Homa Variations

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Thr... Lees meer

Looking for Mary Magdalene

Anna Fedele

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Winner of the Award for Excellence in Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion Anna Fedele offers a sensitive et... Lees meer

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era

Reginald McGinnis, John Vignaux Smyth

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial f... Lees meer

Ritual, Media, and Conflict

Ronald L Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies... Lees meer

The Craft of Ritual Studies

Ronald L Grimes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald... Lees meer

Ritual Textuality

Matt Tomlinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• A classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances achieve-or fail to achieve-their effects. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson... Lees meer

Homo Ritualis

Axel Michaels

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Is the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than people of other fa... Lees meer

Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity

Marion Grau

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose aroun... Lees meer

Making Things Better

Napier

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for... Lees meer

Ritual, Media, and Conflict

Ronald L Grimes

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies... Lees meer

Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic ritua... Lees meer

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

Michael David Kaulana Ing

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achi... Lees meer

Performing the Reformation

Barry Stephenson, Stephenson Barry

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• The home of Martin Luther for thirty six years and seat of the German Reformation, Wittenberg, Germany is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Wittenberg... Lees meer

Rites of the God-King

Marko Geslani

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, howeve... Lees meer

Subversive Spiritualities

Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Frdrique Apffel-Marglin, Fraedaerique Apffel-Marglin

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multi... Lees meer

Singing the Rite to Belong

Helen Phelan

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnogra... Lees meer

A Different Medicine

Joseph D Calabrese

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practi... Lees meer

Craft of Ritual Studies

Ronald L Grimes

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald... Lees meer

Subversive Spiritualities

Apffel-Marglin

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multi... Lees meer

The Problem with Ritual Efficacy

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• 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 t... Lees meer

The Dancing Dead

Walter E a Van Beek

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara ... Lees meer

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

Justine Buck Quijada

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Ritual Studies
• History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nat... Lees meer