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5072 -- KREINATH, JENS, CONSTANCE HARTUNG & ANNETTE DESCHNER (Eds.)

The dynamics of changing rituals. The transformation of religious rituals within their social and cultural context
(Toronto studies in religion 29)
New York: Lang Publishing 2004
287 pp., Euro 74.90; ISBN 0-8204-6826-6


Most papers of this volume originate from a symposium held at the ´Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg´, in October 1999.
##Most ritual participants claim that their rituals have been the same since time immemorial. Citing recent research in ritual studies, this book illustrates how, on the contrary, rituals are often subject to dynamic changes. When do rituals change? When is the change accidental and when is it on purpose? Are certain kinds of rituals more stable or unstable than others? Which elements of rituals are liable to change and which are relatively stable? Who has the power to change rituals? Who decides to accept a change or not?##

  • HANDELMAN, DON: Re-framing ritual
  • FERNANDEZ, JAMES W.: Contemporary carnival (carnaval) in Asturias: Visual figuration as a ´ritual´ of parodic release and democratic revitalization
  • SCHRÖTER, SUSANNE: Rituals of rebellion - rebellion as ritual: A theory reconsidered
  • GUIBBORY, ACHSAH: Communion, national community, and the challenge of radical religion in seventeenth-century England
  • HARTH, DIETRICH: Artaud´s holy theater: A case for questioning the relations between ritual and stage performance
  • REIN, ANETTE: Balinese temple dances and ritual transformations in the process of modernization
  • KÖPPING, KLAUS-PETER: Failure of performance or passage to the acting self? Mishima´s suicide between ritual and theater
  • THOMAS, GÜNTER: Changing media - changing rituals: Media rituals and the transformation of physical presence
  • EBREY, PATRICIA B.: The incorporation of portraits into Chinese ancestral rites
  • GAENSZLE, MARTIN: Transgenerational change: The social process of transmitting oral ritual texts among the Rai in East Nepal
  • HENN, ALEXANDER: Politics of acculturation: The dynamics of Hindu-Christian ritual in Goa, India
  • WEBER, PETER: Shifts in place and meaning: The history of two cult centers in pre-colonial Tanzania
  • FURLEY, WILLIAM D.: Athens and Delos in the Fifth Century B.C.E.: Ritual in a wor1d of shifting allegiances
  • ABUSCH, TZVI: Considerations when killing a witch: Developments in exorcist attitudes to witchcraft in Mesopotamia
  • ODENTHAL, ANDREAS: Ritual between tradition and change: The paradigm shift of the Second Vatican Council´s liturgical reform
  • JUNG, MATTHIAS: Expressive appropriateness and pluralism: The example of Catholic liturgy after Vatican II
  • STAUSBERG, MICHAEL: Patterns of ritual change among Parsi-Zoroastrians in recent times
  • PLATVOET, JAN G.: Ritual as war: On the need to de-westernize the concept
  • KREINATH, JENS: Theoretical afterthoughts

    Keywords: rituals, transformation of rituals, carnival, rebellion rituals, radical religion, religion and ritual, Artaud, A., performance, temple dance (Bali), theater and ritual, media rituals, ancestral rites, oral ritual texts, Rai, acculturation (Goa), witchcraft, exorcism, liturgy in Catholicism, Parsis, Zoroastrianism

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