1st Edition
Understanding Religious Ritual Theoretical approaches and innovations
Introduction: Improving our Understanding of Religious Ritual by John P. Hoffmann 1. Transformations: The Social Construciton of Religious Ritual by Timothy J. Nelson 2. The Ritual Production of Belonging and Belief: Darwinian Flesh for Durkheimian Bones by Douglas A. Marshall 3. Experience, Subjectivity and Performance: An Anthropological Approach to Pentecostal Rituals Based on the Body by Geraldine Mossiere 4. Ritual Texts: Languages and Action in Ritual by Jorgen Podemann Sorensen 5. A Psychological Functionalist Perspective on a Forgiveness Ritual by Elizabeth A. Gassin 6. Making It Look Right: Ritual as a Form of Communication by Daniel B. Lee 7. Applying Practise-Oriented Approaches to Islamic Purification and Prayer by Kate Ostergaard 8. Centered in Time: A Sociological Phenomenology of Religious Rituals by James V. Spickard 9. Mongolian Livestock Rituals: Appropriations, Adaptations, and Transformations by Vesna A. Wallace 10. 'Don’t Forget Home': The Importance of Sacred Ritual in Families by Loren D. Marks and David Dollahite 11. The Ritual Economy in Modern Malaysia by Johan Fischer
Biography
John P. Hoffmann is Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University. His research interests include the influence of religious practices on behaviours and attitudes. He has also studied western religions in Japan. His most recent books include Japanese Saints and Revisiting Thomas F. O’Dea’s The Mormons.
