"This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that ritual and bodily practices are just as important for religion as beliefs and doctrine. With the...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Taggar-Cohen, Ada (HerausgeberIn), DeMaris, Richard E. ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Schwiebert, Jonathan (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London T&T Clark 2024
Schriftenreihe:	The library of Hebrew Bible. Old Testament studies Bloomsbury collections
Schlagworte:	Bell, Catherine M. / 1953-2008 Ritual / Study and teaching Biblical studies & exegesis Old Testaments
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that ritual and bodily practices are just as important for religion as beliefs and doctrine. With the development of ritual studies in the 1990s there arose a critical framework for investigating ritual and practice. Only recently, however, has Bell’s theorizing been employed to study the rituals portrayed in ancient texts. This cross-disciplinary examination assesses the utility of Bell’s theorizing for studying the textual evidence for rituals of the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and other early Christian literature. The contributors to this volume illustrate a path away from regarding rituals as inert and fixed and toward a more complex and vibrant interactive model of ritual behaviour. In this volume, as each scholar works to recover the traces of long-past rituals in a particular set of materials, these and other concepts are consciously employed to guide or challenge the investigation, pushing beyond previous conclusions about ancient rituals. The contributors’ attention to theory, and especially the social context, practical function, and symbolic interpretation, set this collection apart from studies that consider the rituals in more traditional textual ways. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that ritual and bodily practices are just as important for understanding religions as beliefs and doctrine. With the development of ritual studies in the 1990s there arose a critical framework for investigating them. Foremost among the ritual theorists of the time was Catherine Bell, whose thinking continues to be used widely to study rituals. Only recently, however, has Bell’s theorizing been employed to study the rituals portrayed in ancient text [...]."
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780567710574 9780567710567
DOI:	10.5040/9780567710574