TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tanner, R E S
AU  - Tanner,R E S
TI  - Religious Ceremonies:  Christian Rituals in Cross-Cultural Perspective
U1  - C94.1 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Bangalore
PB  - Dharmaram Publications
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction  The nature of belief and practice	.............06  Meaning in the context of religious ceremonies	.............09  Social science and the loss of personal unity	............. 11  The limitations of categorization	............. 13  The assumptions of linear thought	............. 15  Assessing multiple factors in religious ceremonies	............. 17  The religious reluctance to use the social sciences	............. 18  A predestined cultural approach	.............21  Uncertainty and contemporary religions  The certainty of uncertainty	.............25  The certainties of poverty	.............25  The certainties of inequality	.............26  The certainty of natural disasters	.............27  The certainty of violence	.............28  The certainty of strangers	.............29  The certainty of negotiating uncertainties	.............30  The certainty of sexual uncertainties	.............31  The certainty of disease and accidents	.............31  The uncertainties of the new certainties	.............32  The uncertainties of constitutional equality	.............32  The uncertainties of livelihood	.............33  The uncertainties of education	.............34  The uncertainties over sexuality	.............35  The uncertainties of political violence	.............36  The uncertainties over health	.............37  The uncertainties over generelational roles	.............38  Uncertainties over the environment	.............39  Approaches to the study of religious behaviour  The founding fathers of anthropology	.............47  The psychological approach to understanding religious behaviour...49  Sociological theories of religion	............. 50  Religions in their cultural settings	............. 51  The global gauze of religious ceremonials	.............56  The methods for examining religious behaviour  Methodological restrictions on acquiring social knowledge  The inappropriateness of breaking down unitary activities.........71  The impossibility of exactness	.............80  Subjecting the inexactness of prayer to the exactness of analysis... 82  The issue of cooperative research into religion	............. 86  The methodology of comparison	.............89  The availability of data for comparison	.............92  The research costs of assessing unorthodoxy	.............94  The overall costs of finding out	.............96  The unnaturalness of data collection	.............98  Contents  The use of the body and mind  Genetics, ethology and contemporary religious practices  Language and religion  The background to religious behaviour  The absence of homogeneous societies	... ......... 189  Uniformities in religious behaviour	... .........191  The hybridisation of religious ceremonies	... ......... 192  The individuality of religious beliefs and practices	... ......... 195  The cost-benefit approach	... ......... 197  The part-time nature of religious involvements	... .........199  The environment of a religious culture	... .........202  The practising believer- the users	of faith  Ceremonies of childhood	............208  Ceremonies of adolescence	... .........211  Ceremonies of marriage	... .........213  Ceremonies ofageing	............215  Ceremonies of death	............218  The performers of religious ceremonials  Some tentative conclusions  Repetition and theological inadequacy	... ........ .261  The basic definitions `operato` and `operands`.	... .........266  By the work done and its historical background	... .........267  The great divide; preparation versus participation	... ........ .269  The importance of choice	... ......... 271  The nature of belief and practice.	... ......... 272
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