The craft of ritual studies / Ronald L. Grimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimes, Ronald L., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual.

Worship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In religious studies, theory, and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. This title melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural interdisciplinary study of ritual enactments.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Lists; List of Videos and Online Materials; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: METHOD; 1 Performing Research and Teaching; JOHN BOURKE AS A STUDENT OF RITUAL; FROM SYMBOL AND CONQUEST TO THE CRAFT OF RITUAL STUDIES; 2 Fieldworking Ritual; PREPARING; THE FIELD; NEGOTIATING; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; INTERVIEWING; 3 Reading, Writing, and Mediatizing Ritual; WRITING; PUBLISHING AND PRESENTING; THE MEDIA OF STUDYING RITUAL; PART II: CASE; 4 Filming Fiesta; SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE SANTA FE FIESTA; THE SANTA FE FIESTA, 2007; AARON'S ZOZOBRA

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE SANTA FE FIESTARITUAL CRITICISM AND THE SANTA FE FIESTA; FIELD AND HOME IN RITUAL STUDIES; 5 Framing Fiesta; THE SPANISH RECONQUEST, 711-1492; CEREMONIES OF POSSESSION; THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, 1519-1521; THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO, 1598; THE PUEBLO REVOLT OF 1680; THE RITUAL RECONQUEST OF SANTA FE, 1692; THE MILITARY RECONQUESTS OF SANTA FE, 1693 AND 1696; THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; FESTIVITY, AMERICAN PAGEANTRY, AND THE MYTH OF SANTA FE: THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES; CONTOURS OF FIESTA HISTORY; PART III: THEORY; 6 Theorizing Ritual

THE MEANING OF "THEORY"WORKING WITH THEORIES; 7 Defining and Classifying Ritual; USING THE TERM "RITUAL"; EXAMPLES OF SCHOLARLY DEFINITIONS; CLASSIFYING RITUALS; RITUAL MODES; COMPARING RITUALS; 8 Mapping Ritual; RITUAL AND SPORT; RITUAL AND MUSIC; RITUAL AND THEATER; RITUAL AS A DOMAIN; 9 Elements of Ritual; RITUAL ACTIONS; RITUAL ACTORS; RITUAL PLACES; RITUAL TIMES; RITUAL OBJECTS; RITUAL LANGUAGES; RITUAL GROUPS; RITUAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES; ELEMENTS AND DOMAINS; 10 Dynamics of Ritual; WHAT RITUALS DO; RITUALS EMPOWER AND DISEMPOWER GROUPS; RITUALS ATT UNE AND DISATT UNE BODIES

RITUALS REINFORCE THE STATUS QUO AND ENACT TRA NSFORMATIONRITUALS MAKE AND UNMAKE MEANING; MODELING RITUAL; REIMAGINING THEORY AND METHOD; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Sources Cited; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-937356-6

0-19-530143-9

0-19-937355-8

1-306-14228-8

OCLC:

864138753