@article{1439138,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Stewart, Pamela J. and Strathern, Andrew.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439138},
      title = {The Palgrave handbook of anthropological ritual studies /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {This handbook showcases a set of exemplary contemporary  studies on a wide range of topics in Ritual Studies, based  on firsthand ethnographic research. The studies are chosen  to demonstrate the scope of current theorizing on ritual  practices, illuminated by the field experience of the  authors. Each chapter highlights a specific concern with  the process of theorizing, along with explication of how  theory emerges from the ethnography, using an interpretive  approach. The topics cover classic fields of study, such as  shamanic practices, sorcery and witchcraft, sacrifice,  religious pilgrimages and individual experience,  inter-rituality and the compatibility of practices, temple  organization and cultural intimacy, empathy and the  situations of migrants and asylum seekers, sport and the  construction of identities, performance studies, social  exchange and sharing, ritual innovation, hospitality,  cognition, mortuary practices, Pentecostal Christianity,  and revivals and the reconstitution of charisma over time.  Throughout the volume there is an emphasis on creativity  and change in ritual practices over time, in counterpoint  to the conventional view that rituals represent continuity  and stability in social life. The scholars collected here  provide pathways through the complex and cross-disciplinary  landscape of Ritual Studies today, and ultimately point to  developments in the future. Edited by two of the most  prominent Ritual Studies researchers active today, this  volume should serve as an invaluable resource for scholars  and students of the field for years to come. Pamela J.  Stewart is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the  University of Pittsburgh, USA. Andrew J. Strathern is  Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University  of Pittsburgh, USA. Stewart and Strathern have a long  history of joint publications and research, with nearly  fifty book publications and over two hundred co-authored  articles. They are the long-standing co-editors of the  Journal of Ritual Studies, and co-editors of the book  series Ritual Studies and the volume Ritual: Key Concepts  in Religion (2014).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76825-6},
      recid = {1439138},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      year = {2021},
}