Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over time? Such questions exist against a backdrop of assumptions about development, modernization, and disenchantment of the world.Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, surveys the field of ritual studies looking at it both historically within anthropology and in terms of its contemporary relevance to mass phenomena.

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• Authors: Pamela Stewart, Pamela J Stewart, Pamela J. Stewart, Pamela J. Strathern Stewart, Pamela/ Strathern Stewart, Andrew Strathern
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781441137296
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3729-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Key Concepts in Religion; Key Concepts in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / General, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Christianity, Aspects of religion, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Aspects Of Religion (Non-Christian)