Victor Turner Revisited Ritual as Social Change
- Atlanta Scholars Press 1991
- 191p
- Bhavan`s Book University Series ; 199100ENGGPS7 .
includes index and biblioraphy
INTRODUCTION THE PROBLEM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE Method in Treating the Problem Thesis PART ONE RITUAL ANTI-STRUCTURE Aim and Scope of Part One CHAPTER ONE TURNER`S DEFINITION OF RITUAL RECONSIDERED The Problem Presented by Turner`s Definition Turner`s Theory of Ritual Turner`s Distinction between "Liminal" and "Liminoid" Phenomena CHAPTER TWO ANTI-STRUCTURE AND ITS Two DIMENSIONS: LlMINALITY AND COMMUNITAS Explication of Turner`s Theory "Liminality" "Communitas" CHAPTER THREE SETTING MISINTERPRETATIONS OF TURNER`S THEORY STRAIGHT Tribal Ritual Ritual As Catharsis Ritual Reversal Forms of Ritual Communitas "Spontaneous" and "Normative" Communitas "Ideological" Communitas Turner`s Point PART TWO PENTECOSTAL POSSESSION As RITUAL ANTI-STRUCTURE CHAPTER FOUR PENTECOSTAL RITUAL RECONSIDERED:"ANTI-STRUCTURAL" DIMENSIONS OF POSSESSION Ritual Possession In the Scholarly Literature CHAPTER FIVE RITUAL POSSESSION As REDRESSIVE ACTIVITY Ritual Liminality at The House of the Lord Ritual Communitas A Turnerian View of Possession "Normative" Communitas "Ideological" Communitas Ideology`s Role in Rituals of Protest Political Activism Among Other Pentecostals Worldwide PART THREE GROTOWSKI`S PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS As SECULAR RITUALS OF SPIRITUAL HEALING CHAPTER SIX GROTOWSKI`S RITUAL THEATER Religious Ritual More Broadly Considered Routinization Versus Newly Emerging Ritual Ritual Antecedents in Grotowski`s Actor Training Technique The Paratheatrical Projects Grotowski`s Diagnosis of Western Culture Ritual Aspects of Grotowski` s Projects CHAPTER SEVEN GROTOWSKI`S EXPERIMENTS As EMERGING RITUALS "Night Vigil" "Theatre of Sources" Preliminary Conclusions