Understanding religious ritual

Understanding Religious Ritual Theoretical approaches and innovations
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Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: improving our understanding of religious ritual
2 Transformations: the social construction of religious ritual
3 The ritual production of belonging and belief: Darwinian flesh for Durkheimian bones
4 Experience, subjectivity and performance: an anthropological approach to Pentecostal rituals based on the body
5 Ritual texts: language and action in ritual
6 A psychological functionalist perspective on a forgiveness ritual
7 Making it look right: ritual as a form of communication
8 Applying practice-oriented approaches to Islamic purification and prayer
9 Centered in time: a sociological phenomenology of religious rituals
10 Mongolian livestock rituals: appropriations, adaptations, and transformations
11 “Don’t forget home”: the importance of sacred ritual in families
12 The ritual economy in modern Malaysia
Index