When rituals go wrong

• Titel: When rituals go wrong
• Titelzusatz: mistakes, failure and the dynamics of ritual
• Mitwirkende: Hüsken, Ute [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: [ed.] by Ute Hüsken
• Ausgabe: 1st ed.
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Verlag: BRILL
• Jahr: 2007
• Umfang: 1 online resource (389 pages)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Numen Book Ser. ; v.115
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-90-474-1988-4
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Ritual
• Sach-SW: Ritualism
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1696519888

Abstract

This volume investigates the implications of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. The essays thus break new ground in the comparative analysis of rituals and introduce new perspectives to ritual studies.

Abstract

Preface -- Introduction (Edward L. Schieffelin) -- Mistakes, Procedural Errors and Incorrect Performances -- Types of Ritual Failure and Mistakes in Ritual in Cuneiform Sources (Claus Ambos) -- Failure and Mistakes in Rituals of the European Santo Daime Church: Experiences and Subjective Theories of the Participants (Jan Weinhold) -- Failure Impossible? Handling of Rules, Mistakes and Failure in Public Rituals of Modern Western Societies (Burckhard Dücker) -- Dealing with Deviations in the Performance of Masonic Rituals (Jan A.M. Snoek) -- Perfection and Mishaps in Vedic Rituals (Axel Michaels) -- 'All the King's Horses and All the King's Men': the 2004 Red Matsyendranatha Incident in Lalitpur (Christoph Emmrich) -- Preventive Measures and "Quality Control" -- The Sixteenth Pinda as a Hidden Insurance Against Ritual Failure (Johanna Buss) -- Ensuring Ritual Competence in Ancient Greece. A Negotiable Matter: Religious Specialist (Eftychia Stavrianopoulou) -- Contingencies and Emergence -- Social Consequences of Ritual Failure: a Garhwali Case Study (Karin Polit) -- When a Goddess Weeps-Ritual Failure or Failed Performance? A Case Study from Nepal (Brigitte Merz) -- Change of View: the Ritual Side of Serial Killings and the Conditions for Fortunate Failure (Maren Hoffmeister) -- Competing Perspectives: The Discursive Production of Ritual -- Rivalling Rituals, Challenged Identities: Accusations of Ritual Mistakes as an Expression of Power Struggles in Bali (Indonesia) (Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin) -- Contested Ritual Property. Conflicts over Correct Ritual Procedures in a South Indian Visnu Temple (Ute Hüsken) -- The Unwanted Offering. Ubiquity and Success of Failure in a Ritual of the Hindu Right (Christiane Brosius).