Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199943524
Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this volume explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviours have been studied as ritual while others have not.