ISBN: 9783631573938 - rituals in an unstable world: contingency – hybridity – embodiment (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Henn, Alexander; Koepping, Klaus-Peter. Num Pages: 340 pages, fig. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA; HRAF; HRG; HRGC; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450. . 2008. 1 New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Refuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim), intelligibility (Geertz) and dialectics (Turner). Instead, it shows that rituals assert their significance in the post-colonial and globalizing world by successfully negotiating structure and contingency, identity and hybridity, script and embodiment. Its case studies are dealing with a broad variety of ritual genres and expressions, including initiation ceremonies and spirit possession, new harvest ceremonies, cults of ancestors, deities and saints, ceremonial receptions, inaugurations and memorials, ritual theatre, carnival and ritual painting in contemporary Brazil, Germany, France, India, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Vietnam, and Yemen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Rituals in an Unstable World | Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment | Klaus-Peter Koepping (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2008 | Peter Lang | EAN 9783631573938 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, 10178 Berlin, r[dot]boehm-korff[at]peterlang[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…