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When rituals go wrong : mistakes, failure and the dynamics of ritual /

Investigates the implications of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. This book offers a study on ritual mistakes and failure.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Hüsken, Ute
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden : Biggleswade : Brill ; Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007.
Collection:Studies in the history of religions ; 115.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface; Introduction (Edward L. Schieffelin); Mistakes, Procedural Errors and Incorrect Performances; Types of Ritual Failure and Mistakes in Ritual in Cuneiform Sources (Claus Ambos); Failure and Mistakes in Rituals of the European Santo Daime Church: Experiences and Subjective Theories of the Participants (Jan Weinhold); Failure Impossible? Handling of Rules, Mistakes and Failure in Public Rituals of Modern Western Societies (Burckhard Dücker); Dealing with Deviations in the Performance of Masonic Rituals (Jan A.M. Snoek); Perfection and Mishaps in Vedic Rituals (Axel Michaels).