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Course Bibliography:
Ritual Theory, Pollution & Purity
(starred * items are on reserve in Bird Library)
Ritual Theories:
- Asad, Talal.
"Toward a Genealogy of the Concept of Ritual." Genealogies
of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in
Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Press, 1993. 55-79.
- Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and
Dimensions. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1997.
- Bell, Catherine, ed. Teaching Ritual.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Tr. R. Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1977.
- Blondeau, A.-M. and K. Schipper. Essais sur le rituel. 3 vols. Louvain-Paris, 1988, 1990,
1995.
- Buc, Philippe. The Dangers of Ritual: Between
Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Burkert, Walter. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks
of Biology in Early Religion. Cambridge: Harvard,
1996.
- Chwe, Michael Suk-Young. Rational Ritual:
Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Cunningham, Graham. Religion and Magic:
Approaches and Theories. New York: NYU Press,
1999.
- Driver, Tom. The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for
Liberating Rites that Transform Our Lives and Our
Communities. New York: Harper San Francisco,
1991.
- Freud, Sigmund. “Obsessive Actions and Religious
Practices.” 1907. Available among other places in Readings
in Ritual Studies, edited by Ronald L. Grimes.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Pages 212-217. Also at:
http://people.uncw.edu/bergh/par325/L31RFreud.htm
- Gane, Roy E. Ritual Dynamic Structure.
Gorgias Press, 2004.
- Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Culture.
New York: Basic, 1973.
- Goody, Jack. “The Construction of a Ritual Text.” In
The Power of the Written Tradition (Washington,
DC: Smithsonian, 2000), 47-62.
- Grimes, Ronald L. Beginnings in Ritual Studies.
Rev. ed. Columbia: U. of South Carolina Press, 1995.
- Grimes, Ronald L. Ritual Critcism: Case Studies
in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory. Columbia:
U. of South Carolina Press, 1990.
- Harvey, Graham. Ritual and Religious Belief.
New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Klingbeil, Gerald A. Bridging the Gap: Ritual and
Ritual Texts in the Bible. Winona Lake:
Eisenbrauns, 2007.
- Kreinath, Jens, Jan Snoek, and Michael Stausberg, eds.
Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches,
Concepts. Studies in the History of Religions 114.
Leiden: Brill, 2006.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology.
Tr. C. Jacobson and B. G. Schoepf. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1967.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Naked Man. Tr. J.
and D. Weightman. New York, 1981. (French, 1971).
- Mahmood, Saba. "Rehearsed Spontaneity and the
Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Salat."
American Ethnologist 28/4 (2001) 827-853.
- Patton, Kimberly. Religion of the Gods: Ritual,
Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, 2009).
- Platvoet, Jan and Karel van der Toorn, eds. Pluralism
and Identity: Studies in Ritual Behaviour. SHR
67. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
- Porter, Barbara Nevling. Ritual and Politics in Ancient
Mesopotamia. New
Haven, CT : American Oriental Society, 2005.
- Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the
Making of Humanity. Cambridge UP, 1999.
- Rappaport, Roy A. “Logos, Liturgy, and the Evolution
of Humanity.” In Fortunate the Eyes that See:
Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman. Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995. 601-32.
- Schechner, Richard. Performance Theory. 2nd
ed. London: Routledge, 2003.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. “The Bare Facts of Ritual.” History
of Religions 20 (1978) 112-127; reprinted in Imagining
Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1982), 53-65.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. “The Domestication of Sacrifice.”
In Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural
Formation (ed. R. G. Hamerton-Kelly; Stanford:
Stanford U.P., 1987), pp. 191-235.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory
in Ritual. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Staal, Fritz. “The Meaninglessness of Ritual.” Numen
26/1 (1979), 2-22.
- Staal, Fritz. The Science of Ritual. Poona,
India: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1982.
- Tambiah, Stanley J. “A Performative Approach to
Ritual,” Proceedings of the British Academy 65
(1979), 113–69.
- Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and
Anti-Structure. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1969.
- Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage.
Tr. M. B. Vizedom and G. L. Caffee. Chicago: U. of
Chicago Press, 1960.
- Watts, James W. Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus:
From Sacrifice to Scripture. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Pollution & Purity:
- Arabestani, Mehrdad. “Ritual
Purity and the Mandaeans’ Identity.” Iran and the
Caucasus 16/2 (2012), 153-168.
- Bean, S. S. “Toward a Semiotics of “Purity” and
“Pollution” in India.” American Ethnologist 8
(1981) 575–95.
- Boddy, Janice. "Purity and Conquest in the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan." In Dirt, Undress, and
Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s
Surface (ed. Adeline. Masquelier, Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 168-89.
- Burrus, Virginia. “Pollution and Purity, Sin and
Absolution: Christianity.” In Religions of the
Ancient World: A Guide (ed. Sarah Iles Johnston;
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 511-13.
- Cressy, David. “Purification, Thanksgiving and the
Churching of Women.” In Birth, Marriage &
Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor
and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
196-229.
- De Troyer, Kristin. "Blood: A Threat to Holiness or
Toward (Another) Holiness?" In Kristin De Troyer, Judith
A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie Korte,
eds. Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist Critique
of Purity and Impurity. Studies in Antiquity and
Christianity. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press
International, 2003), pp. 45-64.
- Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of
Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. New York:
Praeger, 1966.
- Douglas, Mary. In the Wilderness: the Doctrine
of Defilement in the Book of Numbers. JSOTSup
158. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.
- Douglas, Mary. Leviticus as Literature.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Durham, Deborah. "Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths
and Morality in Botswana." In Dirt, Undress, and
Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s
Surface (ed. Adeline. Masquelier, Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 190-212.
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. The Savage in Judaism:
An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient
Judaism. Bloomington: U. of Indiana, 1990.
- Ferm, Robert L. Piety, Purity, Plenty: Images of
Protestantism in America. Minneapolis: Fortress,
1991.
- Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva. Menstrual Purity:
Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical
Gender. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2000.
- Frandsen, Paul John. “The Menstrual ‘Taboo’ in Ancient
Egypt.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66/2
(April 2007), 81-106.
- Frevel, C. and C. Nihan. Purity and the Forming of
Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean
World and ancient Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
- Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. “Pollution, Purification, and
Purgation in Biblical Israel,” in Carol L. Meyers and M.
O’Connor (eds), The Word of the Lord Shall Go
Forth. Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman,
Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 1983, pp. 399-414.
- Harrington, Hannah K. Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism
and the Graeco-Roman World. Routledge, 2001.
- Harrington, Hannah K. The Purity Texts. Companion
to the Qumran Scrolls. London: T. & T. Clark, 2004.
- Hayes, Christine E. Gentile Impurity and Jewish
Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the
Bible to the Talmud. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2002.
- Horden, Peregrine. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of
Mediterranean History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
- Jay, Nancy. Throughout Your Generations Forever:
Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity. Chicago: U.
of Chicago, 1992. Chapter on Catholic priesthood.
- Katz, Marion Holmes. Body Of Text: The Emergence
of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity. Albany: SUNY
Press, 2002.
- Kehnscherper, Günther. “The ‘Churching of Women’:
Leviticus 12 and Luke 2:21-24: the Law of Purity and the
Benediction of Mother.” In Studia patristica,
18, pt 2. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1989. 380-384.
- Klawans, Jonathan. Impurity and Sin in Ancient
Judaism. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Klawans, Jonathan. Purity, Sacrifice and the
Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of
Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
- Korte, Anne-Marie. "Female Blood Rituals:
Cultural-Anthropological Findings and
Feminist-Theological Reflections." In Kristin De Troyer,
Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie
Korte, eds. Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist
Critique of Purity and Impurity. Studies in
Antiquity and Christianity. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity
Press International, 2003), pp. 45-64.
- Lamb, Sarah. “The Politics of Dirt and Gender.” In Dirt,
Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the
Body’s Surface (ed. Adeline. Masquelier, Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 213-232.
- Maccoby, Hyam. Ritual and Morality: The Ritual
Purity System and Its Place in Judaism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Majer, Gerald. “On Contagions: Leviticus and the
Fascination of the Abomination.” Journal
for Cultural and Religious Theory 2/2
(2001) online.
- Meigs, A. S. “A Papuan Perspective on Pollution.” Manuscripta
13 (1978) 304–18.
- Milgrom, Jacob. "Rationale for Biblical Impurity." In
Numbers, JPS Torah Commenatary (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1990), 346-48, 444-47.
- Milgrom, "Ethical Foundations of the Dietary System,
3. Prohibited Animals." In Leviticus , Anchor
Bible Commentary 3 (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 718-36.
- Neusner, Jacob M. The Idea of Purity in Ancient
Judaism. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973.
- Olyan, Saul M. Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in
Biblical Representations of Cult. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2000.
- Olyan, Saul M. “Purity Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a
Tool to Reconstitute the Community.” Journal for
the Study of Judaism 35 (2004) 1-16.
- Parker, Robert. Miasma: Pollution and
Purification in Early Greek Religion. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 1983.
- Patton, Kimberly. The Sea Can Wash Away All
Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient
Cathartic Ocean. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2006.
- Poirier, John C. “Purity Beyond the Temple in the
Second Temple Era.” Journal of Biblical Literature
122/2 (2003) 247-265.
- Polidoulis Kapsalis, Maria Fotini. “The Canons of
Ritual Uncleanness and Women in the Orthodox Church.” Coptic
Church Review 19 (Wint 1998), 110-121.
- Poorthuis, M. J. H. M. and J. Schwartz (eds.). Purity
and Holiness: The Heritage of Leviticus. Leiden:
Brill, 2000.
- Regev, Eyal. "Non-Priestly Purity and its Religious
Aspects according to Historical Sources and
Archeological Findings." In Poorthuis and Schwartz, Purity
and Holiness , 223-244a.
- Roll, Susan K. "The Old Rite of the Churching of Women
after Childbirth." In Kristin De Troyer, Judith A.
Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie Korte, eds.
Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist Critique of
Purity and Impurity. Studies in Antiquity and
Christianity. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press
International, 2003), pp. 117-141.
- Rosen, L. N. “Contagion and Cataclysm: A Theoretical
Approach to the Study of Ritual Pollution Beliefs.” African
Studies 32 (1973) 229–46.
- Ruane, Nicole J. "Chapter Five: Impurity and the
Creation of Difference," Sacrifice and Gender in
Biblical Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2013).
- Schultz, Jennifer. "Doctors, Philosophers, and
Christian Fathers on Menstrual Blood." In Kristin De
Troyer, Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and
Anne-Marie Korte, eds. Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A
Feminist Critique of Purity and Impurity. Studies
in Antiquity and Christianity. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity
Press International, 2003), pp. 97-116.
- Smith, Virginia. Clean: A History of Personal
Hygiene and Purity. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
- Wasserfall, Rahal R. Women and Water:
Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law. Brandeis
University Press, 1999.
- Wilson, E. Jan. Holiness & Purity In
Mesopotamia. AOAT 237. Neukirchen-Vluyn:
Neukirchener/Ugarit Verlag, 1994.
- Wright, David P. The Disposal of Impurity:
Elimination Rites in the Bible and in Hittite and
Mesopotamian Literatures. SBLDS 101. Atlanta:
Scholars, 1987.
- Yoo, Yohan. A Theory of Purity from the
Perspective of Comparative Religion. Ph.D.
Dissertation, Syracuse University, 2005.
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