The problem of ritual efficacy /

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How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sax, William Sturman, 1957-, Quack, Johannes, Weinhold, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Colección:Oxford ritual studies.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Ritual.
Culture.
Human behavior.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Social sciences.
Culture
Social Behavior
Ceremonial Behavior
Behavior
Anthropology, Cultural
Anthropology
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Social Sciences
Psychiatry and Psychology
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Ethnology
Religion.
Religion > General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Rituel.
Comportement humain.
Ethnologie.
Anthropologie.
Sciences sociales.
culture note.
human behavior.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
anthropology.
social sciences.
culture (concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Social sciences
Human behavior
Ritual
Rituelle Magie
Geistheilung
Religion
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; 1. Ritual and the Problem of Efficacy; 2. Ritual Healing and the Investiture of the Babylonian King; 3. Jesus and his Followers as Healers: Symbolic Healing in Early Christianity; 4. Healing Rituals in the Mediaeval West; 5. Excommunication in the Middle Ages: A Meta-Ritual and the Many Faces of Its Efficacy; 6. The Work of Zâr: Women and Spirit Possession in Northern Sudan; 7. Ritual Humility in Modern Laboratories: Or, Why Ecuadorian IVF Practitioners Pray; 8. Ritual, Medicine, and the Placebo Response; 9. Bell, Bourdieu, and Wittgenstein on Ritual Sense; Index.

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