Liberating Rites - Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual

List of contents

Also by Tom F. Driver -- Preface -- Ritual Pathways -- Introduction -- Ritualizing: The Animals Do It and So Do We -- Modern Warfare: The Loss of Ritual Pathways -- Priest and Shaman: Two Pathways of Religious Ritual -- Modalities of Performance -- Ritual, Theater, and Sacrifice -- Ritual's Two Siblings: Performance in the Confessional and the Ethical Modes -- Ritual's Social Gifts -- Order -- Community -- Transformation -- Conclusion -- Christian Sacraments as the Performance of Freedom -- Appendixes

About the author

Tom F. Driver

Summary

This book shows how necessary ritual is to human freedom and to social processes of liberation. It aims to reflect upon the deep human longing for ritual and to interpret it in the light of our physical, social, political, sexual, moral, aesthetic, and religious existence.

Product details

• Authors: Tom F. Driver, Driver Tom F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367010454
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01045-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christian life & practice, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals