Discourse in ritual studies (Brill, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Liturgical studies from a ritual studies perspective / Hans Schilderman -- Religion, morality and ritual in evolutionary perspective / Johannes A. van der Ven -- Towards a liturgical theory of the incarnated mind: a non-reductive naturalist view / C.A.M. Hermans, J. Janssen, L. Gommers & I. Houwer -- Liturgical action from a language perspective : about performance and performatives in liturgy / Aad de Jong -- Ritual, performance, and the sequestering of sacred space / Ronald L. Grimes -- Matrimony : values and ritual : an empirical study of the relation between matrimonial values and notions about the form of ecclesiastic marriage rites / Remco Robinson and Hans Schilderman -- Roman Catholic funeral liturgy and human finitude: empirical explorations of life, death and afterlife in connection with liturgical memory / Thomas Quartier & Chris A.M. Hermans -- Ministry as a ritual profession / Hans Schilderman -- From ritual to hermeneutics : an exploration with ethical intent / Jean-Pierre Wils -- "Can yesterday get better?" : the trouble with memory and the gift of the Eucharist : systematic-theological reflections on the presence of the past / Georg Essen
Offers an introduction into the study of public worship from the perspective of ritual studies. This volume supplies a need for studies of public worship that take into account the multidisciplinary and innovative research in ritual studies while dealing with basic issues of religious studies and theology