Beginnings in Ritual Studies

Grimes, Ronald L.

ISBN 10: 1453752625 / ISBN 13: 9781453752623

Published by Createspace Independent, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beginnings in Ritual Studies
• Publisher: Createspace Independent
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453752625
• ISBN 13: 9781453752623
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Beginnings in Ritual Studies lays the groundwork for the interdisciplinary study of ritual by broadening the conception of it and articulating its connections to a wide range of cultural activities. Accessible to scholars and students, Beginnings addresses such fundamental issues as definitions, types, and theories of ritual. The volume integrates field research and theory in considering ritual's relation to religious, civil, medical, and theatrical dimensions of culture. The first and second editions garnered widespread praise from the scholarly community and became a standard work in the burgeoning field of ritual studies. In this third edition, Grimes adds a new preface and revises the descriptive and theoretical essays that form the core of the volume.

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.