Marrying & Burying: Rites Of Passage In A Man's Life - Hardcover

Grimes, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813324599 ISBN 13: 9780813324593

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

Ronald Grimes is a founder of the new interdisciplinary subject of ritual studies. In this book he tells the story of the role of ritual in his own life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the potential that ritualizing has for negotiating transitions.

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About the Author

Ronald L. Grimes is author of several books on ritual, including Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts and Deeply into the Bone: Reinventing Rites of Passage. He is co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series and of the volume, Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Most recently, Grimes was Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, and ISM Fellow at Yale University. Previously, he was Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). Currently, he resides in Canada and is Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813324599
• ISBN 13: 9780813324593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263