The problem of ritual efficacy

Weitere Verfasser: Quack, Johannes.
Sax, William Sturman 1957-
Weinhold, Jan.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : University Press, 2010.
Umfang/Format: ix, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford ritual studies
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