Religious and Social Ritual

Religious and Social RitualExamines particular rituals (social and religious) as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations. In Religious and Social Ritual, ten scholars examine particular rituals as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations. In so doing, they surface timely theoretical and methodological issues and engage fundamental questions such as how and why

with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words

the supplementary texts Bataille added to create the first volume of his Summa Atheologica

Realism can be considered by extension one of the main aspects of literary theory

and urban African Americans-to express the universal

the more modest heritabilities and repeatabilities involved make these tasks even more challenging

Baptist Christianity persists as the dominant religion

and the implications this knowledge will have on deploying sustainable resistances to this destructive pathogen of barley

recent issues related to food authenticity

Suggests an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum

Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams

psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in search of a better life

the Tower of Babel