What is it about?
Ritual studies focus on ritual creativity. Inspired by the anthropologist of religion, Anne-Christine Hornborg, several scholars here contribute to furthering ritual studies into new areas.
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Why is it important?
Ritual studies contribute to the study and understanding of religious practice and lived religion. In exploring rituals and ritualisation in various fields, and different religious and spiritual traditions these studies show how ritual creativity are ongoing social construction that is formed in response to contexts. Rituals are meaning-making practices and performances which contribute both to forming and negotiating the lifeworlds and to expressing them.
Perspectives
My co-editors and I are happy that we have been able to bring together contributions from so many various scholars. Therefore, the Handbook offer a broad perspective on ritual creativity from fields where ritual studies have not been applied before. I have also contributed to ritual studies from the field of religion and ecology and my study shows how ritual creativity works in various workshops where silence and meditation are performed as a way to connect to nature.
Mai Ive Brissman
Centre for theology and religion
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This page is a summary of: Preliminary Material, February 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004692206_001.
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