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Soft cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Book is gently used with only minor wear. Upper corner of some pages are bumped (in the front portion of book). A few corner tips of pages are folded. Tightly bound copy with underlining and marginalia in a few of the chapters/essays. Inv. # 13566.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Covers have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear.

Softcover. Condition: near fine. Octavo. xxv, (1), 777, (1)pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial wrappers with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Very minor soiling at edges of text block. Note: a second volume was published in 2007. Volume one (this book) of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices. (Publisher) Contents: 1. Issues, topics, approaches, concepts -- 2. Annotated bibliography of ritual theory, 1966-2005. Volume 114-1 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.". …

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Octavo. xxv, (1), 777, (1)pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Note: a second volume was published in 2007. Volume one (this book) of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices. (Publisher) Contents: 1. Issues, topics, approaches, concepts -- 2. Annotated bibliography of ritual theory, 1966-2005. Volume 114-1 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 24x16cm, 423 pages., Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Historia Religionum 14. Some wear. A chip to dustwrapper. Good. Full title reads: "Being Religious and Living through the Eyes : Studies in Religious Iconography and Iconology : A Celebratory Publication in Honour of Professor Jan Bergman, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, Published on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, June 2, 1998". A festschrift containing 22 papers. Includes: Jan Bergman: a bibliography / Anders Hultgard, Michael Stausberg; The gods appear: from vision to possession: remarks on visualisation and visibility in Tibetan religion / Per-Arne Berglie; The Lakulisa of Arittapatti / Erik af Edholm ;Ikonographische memoiren / Carl-Martin Edsman;; Boat or buffalo? Some reflections on the symbolism of the Tongkonan house in Sulawesi / Monica Engelhart; The eye of the mind and religious experience in the Shu theology from the Egyptian middle kingdom / Gertie Englund; The cross, the snake, and the lotus / Tord Fornberg; Divine visualisations / Antoon Geels; The human desire to converse with the divine / Lars Hartman;; Islam: the universal religion as expressed through Muslim architecture / Christer Hedin; A Hajj certificate from the early 20th century / Jan Hjarpe; Religious architecture and religious experience / Nils G. Holm; the magi and the star: the Persian background in texts and iconography / Anders Hultgard; The symbolism of a questionable idol / Ake Hultkrantz; L'image royale de Jesus dans l'evangile de Jean / Rene Kieffer; The iconography of Judaisms / Jacob Neusner; Images of the past / Britt-Mari Nasstrom; The Bronzes in the Jetavanarama museum of the cultural triangle, Anuratapuram /; Civacuppiramaniyam Patmanatan; Gnostic iconography / Birger A. Pearson; Jeux de signes hieroglyphiques et speculations trinitaires dans le psautier manicheen copte / Marc Philonenko; The oldest Buddhist artefacts discovered in Tamilakam / Peter Schalk; Uber religionsgeschichtliche entwicklungen zarathustrischer ikonographien in antike und gegenwart, ost und west / Michael Stausberg; The vision of civan in tamil caivam / Alvappillai Veluppillai.…