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Author : Gregor T. Goethals
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The TV Ritual written by Gregor T. Goethals and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199739471
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author : Lucia Peters
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452179905
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark written by Lucia Peters and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins as a test of bravery or a sleepover activity—chanting in front of a mirror, riding an elevator alone, taking pictures in the dark—can become something . . . dangerous. This compendium collects the most spine-chilling games based on urban legends from around the world. Centuries–old games such as Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board are detailed alongside new games from the internet age, like The Answer Man, a sinister voice that whispers secrets to whomever manages to contact him with a cellphone. With step-by-step instructions, historical context, and the stakes for each game, this black handbook is the ideal gift for anyone looking for a late-night thrill—but beware who, or what, may come out to play.
Author : Adam Nevill
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312641842
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Ritual written by Adam Nevill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A horror debut by one of Britain's most celebrated up-and-coming writers, in which four friends get lost in a forest in Sweden, to find their lives are in mortal peril... as something evil lurks.
Author : Dimitris Xygalatas
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316462608
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Ritual written by Dimitris Xygalatas and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a 'fascinating, well-researched' (Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE) journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual—showing how and why our most irrational behaviors are a key driver of our success." Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to their rituals, but few can explain why they are so important. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society, from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we ever learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery—until now. In Ritual, pathfinding scientist Dimitris Xygalatas leads us on an enlightening tour through this shadowy realm of human behavior. Armed with cutting-edge technology and drawing on discoveries from a wide range of disciplines, he presents a powerful new perspective on our place in the world. In birthday parties and coronations, in silent prayer, in fire-walks and terrifying rites of passage, in all the bewildering variety of human life, Ritual reveals the deep and subtle mechanisms that bind us together.
Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800735294
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Ritual written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.
Author : Gregor T. Goethals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807032237
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)
Download or read book The TV Ritual written by Gregor T. Goethals and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879721619
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines various rituals and ceremonies in American popular culture, including architecture, religion, television viewing, humor, eating, and dancing.
Author : Chris Gregory
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860205217
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Be Seeing You-- written by Chris Gregory and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together aspects of media studies, cultural studies, film studies, structuralism, mythology, literary criticism, feminism, and social commentary, this book examines the position of ""The Prisoner as a television classic. Gregory argues that its allegorical depiction of a totalitarian world where technology enables the powers-that-be to control every aspect of its citizens, lives becomes more and more relevant as the years go by. Decodings of all of the series' episodes are detailed, explaining how the series broke with the usual conventions of a TV series.
Author : Phillip Maciak
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479820571
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Avidly Reads Screen Time written by Phillip Maciak and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Avidly Reads Screen Time is a heartwarming, harrowing diary of our relationship with screens and the complicated feelings we have about them"--
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345746
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Rite out of Place written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.
Author : Johanna Sumiala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415684323
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Media and Ritual written by Johanna Sumiala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of media events, including the death of Michael Jackson, a royal wedding and the transgressive actions which took place in Abu Ghraib, and to understand the inner significance of the media coverage of such events. The book deals with theories of ritual, media as ritual including reception, production and representation, and rituals of death in the media. It will be invaluable to students and scholars alike across media, religion and anthropology.
Author : Cele C. Otnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135635625
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Consumption Rituals written by Cele C. Otnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a multifaceted exploration of new rituals, such as Celebrating Kwanzaa and of the ways entrenched rituals, such as Mardi Gras, gift giving, and weddings have changed. Moreover, it examines the influence of both cultures and subcultures.
Author : John M. Gottman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393702828
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Marriage Clinic written by John M. Gottman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-08-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gottman compares his clinic to a restaurant, where clients are offered a menu of treatment formats, from psychoeducation for specific issues to extended therapy to repair a badly damaged marital friendship. Therapists, too, can choose among the questionnaires and strategies those that fit the needs of particular couples."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ib Bondebjerg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319628062
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Transnational European Television Drama written by Ib Bondebjerg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audiences and the creative community. It demonstrates that the diversity of national cultures is a challenge for European TV drama but also a potential richness and source of creative variation. Based on data on the production, distribution and reception of recent TV drama from several European countries, the book presents a new picture of the transnational European television culture. The authors analyse main tendencies in television policy and challenges for national broadcasters coming from new global streaming services. Comparing cases of historical, contemporary and crime drama from several countries, this study shows the importance of creative co-production and transnational mediated cultural encounters between national cultures of Europe.
Author : Graham St John
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450379
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance written by Graham St John and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner’s thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner’s ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary impact. Examining his relevance in studies of performance and popular culture, media, and religion, along with the role of Edith Turner in the Turnerian project, contributors explore how these ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.
Author : Randall Collins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851742
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Interaction Ritual Chains written by Randall Collins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in. The first half of Interaction Ritual Chains is based on the classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms, emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of all sorts--from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual relationships with prostitutes--while describing the interaction rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and literary theory.
