The problem of ritual efficacy
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Quack, Johannes
Sax, William Sturman 1957- Weinhold, Jan |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
University Press,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford ritual studies
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| ISBN: | 0195394402 0195394410 978-0-19-539441-2 9780195394405 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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 Zar: 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
