Teaching ritual / edited by Catherine Bell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Catherine M., 1953-2008.

Series:

AAR teaching religious studies

AAR teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual--Study and teaching.

Ritual.

Rites and ceremonies--Study and teaching.

Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 298 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction

Living a double consciousness / Richard Schechner

Still liminal after all these years: teaching ordeals and peregrinations / Ann Grodzins Gold

Dancing ritual, ritual dancing: experiential teaching / Sam Gill

Field trip and its role in teaching ritual / David Pinault

Experience, purpose, pedagogy, and theory: ritual activities in the classroom / Mark I. Wallace

Ritualizing Zen and the art of writing / Ronald L. Grimes

Teaching ritual propriety and authority through Japanese religions / John Nelson

Camp meeting and the paradoxes of evangelical Protestant ritual / Ann Taves

Ritual from five angles: a tool for teaching / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Teaching rites ritually / Mary E. McGann

Teaching the cognitive approach / Theodore Vial

Religion through ritual / Catherine Bell

Teaching healing rituals/ritual healing / Susan S. Sered and Linda L. Barnes

Reflections on ritual in Noh and Kyōgen / Richard A. Gardner

Ritual performance and ritual practice: teaching the multiple forms and dimensions of ritual / Linda Ekstrom and Richard D. Hecht

Eventfulness of architecture: teaching about sacred architecture is teaching about ritual / Lindsay Jones

Ritual and the writing class / Christopher I. Lehrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195176452

0195176456

9780195176469

0195176464

OCLC:

71552218

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