New PDF release: The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (Oxford Ritual Studies)

By William Sax,Johannes Quack,Jan Weinhold

ISBN-10: 0195394402

ISBN-13: 9780195394405

ISBN-10: 0195394410

ISBN-13: 9780195394412

How do rituals paintings? even supposing this is often one of many first questions that individuals in every single place ask approximately rituals, little has been written explicitly at the subject. In The challenge of formality Efficacy, 9 students handle this factor, ranging around the fields of background, anthropology, medication, and biblical studies.

For "modern" humans, the very idea of formality efficacy is suspicious simply because rituals are broadly considered only symbolic or expressive, in order that - through definition - they can't be efficacious. however humans in lots of cultures imagine that rituals do certainly "work," and once we take a more in-depth examine who makes claims for ritual efficacy (and who disputes such claims), we research greatly in regards to the social and historic contexts of such debates. relocating from the pre-modern era-in which the concept of formality efficacy was once now not quite controversial-into the skeptical current, the authors tackle a suite of debates among positivists, common scientists, and non secular skeptics at the one facet, and interpretive social scientists, phenomenologists, and non secular believers at the different. a few participants strengthen a specific idea of formality efficacy whereas others ask even if the query makes any feel at all.

This path-breaking interdisciplinary assortment can be of curiosity to readers in anthropology, historical past, spiritual stories, humanities and the social sciences commonly outlined, and makes an incredible contribution to the bigger dialog approximately what ritual does and why it concerns to contemplate such things.

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