"Is ritual a "forgotten way of doing things'?" That is the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in "improved texts," nor in the recovery of some mythic "golden age," nor in the "rearrangement of furniture," but in relearning ritual behavior. Christian ritual, Guardini believed, is not the contemplative act of an individual but the public deed of an assembly -- a community gathered in faith and prayer in obedience to Jesus' command. Can people and presiders today relearn this communal way of "doing"? Can they learn to "read" ritual acts simply by doing them, by performing them -- without being self-conscious, theatrical, and fussy? Over the past thirty-five years, Christian liturgists have sought to reinterpret ritual's multiple meanings by transplanting insights from the social sciences (sociology, anthropology). Have the transplants worked? This book tries to answer that question.
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In his first collection, entitled Harmonium, Wallace Stevens, the Hartford Insurance executive who became arguably America's most important poet in the first half of the twentieth century, published a now-famous poem entitled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Victor Turner, Roman Catholic, Ronald Grimes, Talal Asad, Catherine Bell, Mary Douglas, Aidan Kavanagh, Clifford Geertz, United States, David Kertzer, Genealogies of Religion, Michel Foucault, Reinventing Ritual, Mark Searle, North American, Ritual Theory, The Liturgical Press, American Life, Anthropological Conceptions of Religion, Elements of Rite, Genealogy of the Concept of Ritual, Habits of the Heart, Medieval Christian Monasticism, The Forest of Symbols New!
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In his first collection, entitled Harmonium, Wallace Stevens, the Hartford Insurance executive who became arguably America's most important poet in the first half of the twentieth century, published a now-famous poem entitled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
focal reality, emerging ritual, new ethnography, ritual studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Victor Turner, Roman Catholic, Ronald Grimes, Talal Asad, Catherine Bell, Mary Douglas, Aidan Kavanagh, Clifford Geertz, United States, David Kertzer, Genealogies of Religion, Michel Foucault, Reinventing Ritual, Mark Searle, North American, Ritual Theory, The Liturgical Press, American Life, Anthropological Conceptions of Religion, Elements of Rite, Genealogy of the Concept of Ritual, Habits of the Heart, Medieval Christian Monasticism, The Forest of Symbols New!
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- RC Series Bundle: Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas on 5 pages
- Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell on 5 pages
- Michel Foucault the Will to Truth (Social Science Paperbacks) by Sheridan on page 72, and page 85
- Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah on page 22, and page 43
- The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities by Tom F. Driver on page 49, and page 51
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- Living Together and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Adrian Thatcher on page 258, and Back Matter
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