LEADER 02954nam 2200613 450 001 9910780917703321 005 20230725044839.0 010 $a1-282-40287-0 010 $a9786612402876 010 $a0-19-974236-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000001820 035 $a(EBL)477031 035 $a(OCoLC)536309496 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341823 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12135392 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341823 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10396731 035 $a(PQKB)10694072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC477031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL477031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11304308 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240287 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000001820 100 $a20161205h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe problem of ritual efficacy /$fedited by William S. Sax, Johannes Quack & Jan Weinhold 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 225 1 $aOxford Ritual Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-539440-2 311 $a0-19-539441-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aContents; Contributors; 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 Za?r: 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; Index 330 $aHow do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies. For ""modern"" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are widely thought of as merely symbolic or expressive, so that - by definition - they cannot be efficacious. Nevertheless people in many cultures assume that rituals do indeed ""work,"" and when we take 410 0$aOxford ritual studies. 606 $aRitual 615 0$aRitual. 676 $a291.38 702 $aSax$b William Sturman$f1957- 702 $aQuack$b Johannes 702 $aWeinhold$b Jan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780917703321 996 $aThe problem of ritual efficacy$93756858 997 $aUNINA