Liberating Rites - Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Tom F. Driver

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tom F Driver, Tom F. Driver, Driver Tom F.
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367010454
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01045-4
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Teologia pratica; 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