Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption

by Kathryn McClymond

The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual mistakes that exist in the religious literature of indigenous traditions. And yet ritual mistakes (ranging from the simple to the complex) happen all the time, and they continue to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199790914
• ISBN13: 9780199790913
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"