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Language: en
Pages: 216
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-12 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with “the spirit.” Mixed
Language: en
Pages: 465
Pages: 465
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-06 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
Examines particular rituals (social and religious) as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations.
Language: en
Pages: 354
Pages: 354
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Theologischer Verlag Zürich
Often dismissed as "not serious", the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turne