The Craft of Ritual Studies 1st Edition by Ronald L Grimes ISBN 0195301439 978-0195301434

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ISBN 10: 0195301439 

ISBN 13: 978-0195301434

Author: Ronald L Grimes

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods.

The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual. Grimes exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual–for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual’s only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He provides a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual events, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume includes a case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes develops such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments.

This important book, the capstone work of Grimes’s three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies, is accompanied by a set of online videos, as well as appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual studies.

Table of contents: 

• Figures

• Lists

• Videos and Online Materials

• Acknowledgements

• Introduction

Part I: Method

1. Performing Research and Teaching

2. Fieldworking Ritual

3. Reading, Writing, and Mediatizing Ritual

Part II: Case
4. Filming Fiesta
5. Framing Fiesta

Part III: Theory
6. Theorizing Ritual
7. Defining and Classifying Ritual
8. Mapping Ritual
9. Elements of Ritual
10. Dynamics of Ritual

• Glossary

• Sources Cited

• Notes

• Index

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