Beginnings in Ritual Studies (Studies in Comparative Religion) - Softcover

Grimes, Ronald L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570030014 ISBN 13: 9781570030017

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Grimes, Ronald L.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"With this third edition of a seminal work we are happily reassured that Ronald Grimes's Beginnings in Ritual Studies has not come to an end. What a useful, stimulating set of beginnings it was, and is!"
            --Tom F. Driver, author, Liberating Rites
 
"A book worthy of the company of such great pioneers in ritual studies as Victor Turner and Mary Douglas. No one has moved through this field with such verve, imagination, and playful intelligence as Grimes."
            --William G. Doty, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
 
"A pathfinding study. Throughout his book, Grimes reveals himself to be not only one of the foremost ambassadors and patron spirits of ritual studies but also a leading exponent of ritual theory."
            --Ritual Studies

About the Author

Ronald L. Grimes is the author of several books on ritual, most recently, The Craft of Ritual Studies. He is co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series. Grimes was most recently Visiting Professor of Ritual Studies at Charles University, Prague. Prior to that he was Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, and ISM Fellow at Yale University and Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Currently, he resides in Canada and is Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570030014
• ISBN 13: 9781570030017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 299