Teaching ritual /

There is a great deal of interest in bringing better appreciation of ritual into religious classes, but many teachers are uncertain how to go about this. This text addreses the issues specific to teaching this subject.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Bell, Catherine M., 1953-2008
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:AAR teaching religious studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Living a double consciousness / Richard Schechner
  • Still liminal after all these years: teaching ordeals and peregrinations / Ann Grodzins Gold
  • Dancing ritual, ritual dancing: experiential teaching / Sam Gill
  • Field trip and its role in teaching ritual / David Pinault
  • Experience, purpose, pedagogy, and theory: ritual activities in the classroom / Mark I. Wallace
  • Ritualizing Zen and the art of writing / Ronald L. Grimes
  • Teaching ritual propriety and authority through Japanese religions / John Nelson
  • Camp meeting and the paradoxes of evangelical Protestant ritual / Ann Taves
  • Ritual from five angles: a tool for teaching / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
  • Teaching rites ritually / Mary E. McGann
  • Teaching the cognitive approach / Theodore Vial
  • Religion through ritual / Catherine Bell
  • Teaching healing rituals/ritual healing / Susan S. Sered and Linda L. Barnes
  • Reflections on ritual in Noh and Kyōgen / Richard A. Gardner
  • Ritual performance and ritual practice: teaching the multiple forms and dimensions of ritual / Linda Ekstrom and Richard D. Hecht
  • Eventfulness of architecture: teaching about sacred architecture is teaching about ritual / Lindsay Jones
  • Ritual and the writing class / Christopher I. Lehrich.