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Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts

By Ronald L. Grimes

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0195301447, 9780195301441
LCC
GN473 .G75 2006
Open Library ID
OL3409850M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
566 kB (579854 bytes)
Pages
216\214
Topic
Art
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.

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