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Ritual

In religious devotion or service, the practice of certain set formulas that either mark a particular important event in a person's life - such as birth rituals or death rituals - or form a patterned daily, weekly, or annual cycle; for example, Sunday services in Christian churches, or the Saturday Sabbath for Jews. Rituals are usually understood to hold deep symbolic meaning.

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REFERENCES

  • Atkinson, Jane Monnig, “The Effectiveness of Shamans in an Indonesian Ritual”, American Anthropologist, 89/2 (1987): 342-55.
  • Cooper, Gene, “Life-cycle Rituals in Dongyang County: Time, Affinity, and Exchange in Rural China”, Ethnology, 37/4 (1998): 373-94.
  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E., “The Morphology and Function of Magic: A Comparative Study of Trobriand and Zande Ritual and Spells”, American Anthropologist, 31/4 (1929); reprinted in Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Hicks, David, Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.
  • George, Kenneth M., Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Gennep, Arnold van, The Rites of Passage, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960 (French edition1909).
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  • Hegland, Mary Elaine, “Flagellation and Fundamentalism: (Trans)Forming Meaning, Identity, and Gender through Pakistani Women's Rituals of Mourning”, American Ethnology, 25/2 (1998): 240-66.
  • Kertzer, David I., Rituals, Politics, and Power, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1988.
  • Leach, Edmund, Ritual entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, 17 vols, New York: Macmillan, 1968; reprinted in Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Hicks, David, Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.
  • Turner, Victor W., The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, and Chicago: Aldine, 1969.
  • Woodward, Mark, “The Slametan: Textual Knowledge and Ritual Performance in Central Javanese Islam”, History of Religions, 28/1 (1988): 54-89.
  • Woodward, Mark, “The Garebeg Malud in Yogyakarta: Veneration of the Prophet as Imperial Ritual”, Journal of Ritual Studies, 5/1 (1991): 109-32.
  • Price, Simon, “From Noble Funerals to Divine Cult: The Consecration of Roman Emperors,” in Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies, ed. D. Cannadine; S. Price (Cambridge, Eng., 1987), 56-105.
  • Shaw, Gregory, Theurgy and the Soud: The Neoplatonism of lamblichus (University Park, Pa., 1995).
  • Smith, J. Z., “Trading Places,” in Ancient Magic and Ritual Power, ed. M. Meyer; P. Mirecki (Leiden, New York, and Cologne, 1995), 13-28.

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