RLG101H5 Chapter Notes -Roy Rappaport, Christian Cross, Instrumental And Value-Rational Action
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* rituals are just one particular type of bodily place in which religiosity is practised. *religion is practised in the lives people lead, their dailyactivities, and in how they interact with other material things, such as texts, objects, and places. * something may be a ritual, but might not necessarily be religious, and possibly vice versa too. * anthropologist maurice bloch (1985), suggest that the study of religion would be better framed as the study of ritual. * emphasis it puts on the practice of religion, the things that people do, which the more traditional focus in the study of religion (on texts and beliefs) has tended to obscure. * signi cant problems with the term ritual" raised in the work of catherine bell. * in two very in uential books written in the 1990s (ritual theory, ritual practice and ritual) she argued that the term ritual is itself misleading.
