Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1 [ONLY] : Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts
Language: English
Published by Brill, Leiden, 2006
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Octavo. xxv, (1), 777, (1)pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Note: a second volume was published in 2007. Volume one (this book) of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices. (Publisher) Contents: 1. Issues, topics, approaches, concepts -- 2. Annotated bibliography of ritual theory, 1966-2005. Volume 114-1 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.".
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- Title
- Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1 [ONLY] : Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts
- Author
- Kreinath, Jens and Joannes Augustinus, Maria Snoek, and Michael Stausberg (editors)
- Publisher
- Brill, Leiden
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 900415342X
- ISBN 13
- 9789004153424
- Seller catalogs
- Religion, Philosophy
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About the Author
Jan Snoek studied in Leiden (The Netherlands). In 1996 he held the Théodore Verhaegen Chair (Freemasonry) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB). Currently he teaches Sciences of Religions at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He published widely about the development of masonic rituals. The edited volume Women's Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders (with Alexandra Heidle) will appear with Brill this year. In preparation is a monograph Transferring Masonic Rituals from Male to Mixed and Female Orders.
Michael Stausberg (Dr. phil.) is professor of the History of Religions at the University of Bergen (Norway). His publications include Die Religion Zarathushtras (3 vols. 2002-2004). He is the editor of Zoroastrian Rituals in Context (2004). Apart from a study of the contemporary Zoroastrian priesthood in India and essays on a variety of topics (from the history of the study of religion to modern tourism), Stausberg is currently preparing a work on the terminology used in the study of religion (working title: The Vocabulary of Religious Studies).
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