Research Catalog

Title

Research in ritual studies : a programmatic essay and bibliography / by Ronald L. Grimes.

Author

Grimes, Ronald L., 1943-

Publication

[Chicago] : American Theological Library Association ; Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985.

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Details

Description

ix, 165 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

ATLA bibliography series ; no. 14

Uniform Title

ATLA bibliography series ; no. 14.

Subject

• Rites and ceremonies > Bibliography
• Ritual > Bibliography
• Rites and ceremonies
• Ritual
• Rites et cérémonies > Bibliographie
• Rituel > Bibliographie

Genre/Form

Bibliographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• PART 1: RITUAL COMPONENTS: 1. Action. -- 2. Space. -- 3. Time. -- 4. Objects. -- 5. Symbols, metaphor. -- 6. Group. -- 7. Self. -- 8. Divine beings. -- 9. Language. -- 10. Quality, quantity, theme.
• PART 2: RITUAL TYPES: 1. Rites of passage. (couvade, baptism, iniation, puberty, circumcision). -- 2. Marriage rites. -- 3. Funerary rites. (mortuaty rites, death, mourning, unction, burial, cremation). -- 4. Festivals. (celebration, feasts, carnivals, contests, sports, games). -- 5. Pilgrimage. (guests, processions, parades). -- 6. Purification. (fasts, pollution, taboo, sin, confession). -- 7. Civil ceremony. (royal rites, enthronement, legal ceremony, warfare). -- 7. Riutals of exchange. ( hunting, agricultultural rites, ritual ecology, meals, food offerings, potlatch). -- 9. Sacrifice. (decapitation, cannibalism, executiions, violence, atonement). -- 10. Worship.(liturgy, prayer, sacraments). -- 11. Magic. (fertility, divination, sorcery, oracles). -- 12. Healing rites. (Shamanism, psychedelics, exorcism, illness, therapy, dream uncubation, poessession). -- 13. Interaction rites. (animal ritualization, habit, secular ritual). -- 14. Mediation rites. (possession, conversion, trance) -- 15. Rites of inversion. (rites of rebellion, clowning, joking, obscenity, revitalization rites).-16. Ritual drama. (pageants, experiemental rites, entertainment rites).
• PART 4: GENERAL WORKS IN VARIOUS FIELD-CLUSTERS: 1. Religious studies, theology, ethics, history of religions, liturgics. -- 2. Anthropology, ethnography, ethology, folklore. -- 3. Sociology, social psychology, political science. -- 4. Literature, literary criticism. -- 5. Philosophy. -- 6. History, classics. -- 7. Communications, kinesics, linguistics. -- 8. Psychology, meidcine, biology, physics, genetics. -- 9. Education. -- 10. Theater, arts, music.

ISBN

• 0810817624
• 9780810817623

LCCN

84023474

OCLC

• ocm11315665
• 11315665
• SCSB-9470305

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library