Kathryn T McClymond

Ritual Gone Wrong

What We Learn from Ritual Disruption

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Produktbeschreibung

Ritual theorizing has tended to focus on perfect rituals, as prescribed in sacred texts, yet ritual mistakes occur all the time--crucial items can go missing or get broken, incorrect phrases can be said.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199790920
• ISBN-10: 0199790922
• Artikelnr.: 47870961

Autorenporträt

Kathryn T. McClymond is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Negotiating Ritual Repair: The prayascitta material in the
Baudhayana Srauta Sutra
* Chapter 2 Don't Cry Over Spilled Blood: Ritual Correction in the
Mishnah
* Chapter 3 Blood Libel: Ritual Misrepresentation
* Chapter 4 Of Fists and Feathers: The Modern Olympic Games
* Chapter 5 When Ritual Systems Collide: The Execution of Saddam
Hussein
* Conclusion
* Appendix
* Notes
* Bibliography