Table of Contents

List of illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 Ritualization Chapter 2 Ritual and the Origins of Culture Chapter 3 Ritual and Society Chapter 4 Ritual and Transformation Chapter 5 Definitions, Types, Domains Chapter 6 Ritual as Performance Chapter 7 The Fortunes of Ritual References Further reading Index

About the Author

Barry Stephenson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, and coeditor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series. He is the author of Performing the Reformation: Public Ritual in the City of Luther and Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism.