Rite out of place : ritual, media, and the arts / Ronald L. Grimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimes, Ronald L., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies.

Mass media.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We have been led to believe that rituals are well-behaved and predictable, but they sometimes behave in unpredictable ways, especially when they emerge in unexpected places. However much rites may seem to be at home in churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues, they are not captives of sacredspaces. Rituals appear on television, stare back at the lens in family photographs, slip into university classrooms, haunt the wilds, and attend movies. Rite Out of Place makes provocative discoveries by scouting out some of the unexpected places where ritualizing takes root. Most ritual studiesscholarshi

Contents:

Ritual and the media

Documenting ritual

Shooting rites

Fiddling with fiddler

Ritual in the classroom

Ritualizing September 11

Sequestering sacred space

Putting space in its place

The barn and the lab

Ritual theory and the environment

Performance is currency.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-020780-9

1-4294-6890-4

0-19-534574-6

0-19-530145-5

1-280-90789-4

OCLC:

476011743