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Pages: 390
Authors: Ute Hüsken
Categories: Social Science
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This volume investigates the implications of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. The essays thus break new gr
Ritual Gone Wrong
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Pages: 257
Authors: Kathryn T. McClymond
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined
The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism
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Pages: 298
Authors: Michael David Kaulana Ing
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Michael Ing's The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism is the first monograph in English about the Liji--a text that purports to be the writings of Confu
What Is the Mishnah?
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Authors: Shaye J. D. Cohen
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The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, gen
Ritual Failure
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Pages: 174
Authors: Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri
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‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and