When rituals go wrong : mistakes, failure and the dynamics of ritual /
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007. |
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| Description: | xi, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ; 115 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6365672 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction / Edward L. Schieffelin
- Mistakes, procedural errors and incorrect performances
- Types of ritual failure and mistakes in ritual in cuneiform sources / Claus Ambos
- Failure and mistakes in rituals of the European Santo Daime Church : experiences and subjective theories of the participants / Jan Weinhold
- Failure impossible? Handling of rules, mistakes and failure in public rituals of modern western societies / Burckhard Dücker
- Dealing with deviations in the performance of Masonic rituals / Jan A.M. Snoek
- Perfection and mishaps in Vedic rituals / Axel Michaels
- 'All the King's Horses and All the King's Men' : the 2004 Red Matsyendranātha incident in Lalitpur / Christoph Emmrich
- Preventive measures and "quality control"
- The sixteenth Piṇḍa as a hidden insurance against ritual failure / Johanna Buss
- Ensuring ritual competence in ancient Greece : a negotiable matter : religious specialist / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
- Contingencies and emergence
- Social consequences of ritual failure : a Garhwali case study / Karin Polit
- When a goddess weeps : ritual failure or failed performance? A case study from Nepal / Brigitte Merz
- Change of view : the ritual side of serial killings and the conditions for fortunate failure / Maren Hoffmeister
- Competing perspetives : the discursive production of ritual
- Rivalling rituals, challenged identities : accusations of ritual mistakes as an expression of power struggles in Bali (Indonesia) / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
- Contested ritual property : conflicts over correct ritual procedures in a South Indian Viṣṇu temple / Ute Hüsken
- The unwanted offering : ubiquity and success of failure in a ritual of the Hindu right / Christiane Brosius
- Failure of ritual reinvention? Efficacious new rituals among Taiwan's aborigines under the impact or religious conversion and competition between elites / Michael Rudolph
- Ritual dynamics and ritual failure / Ute Hüsken
- Index.