The history and genealogy of liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond its original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to denote spaces and moments in which the taken-for-granted order of the world c…
Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept, discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of 'n…
"In this review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life - from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the ad…
The rites of passage
by Vizedom, Monika B., Caffee, Gabrielle L., Van Gennep, Arnold, Kimball, Solon T.
fromPhoenix books
Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to reg…
"The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage. Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, an…
Christian ritual in British slave societies -- Ritual time and space in the British plantation colonies -- Marriage and baptism in the British plantation colonies -- The meanings of the Eucharist in the plantation world -- Mortuary ritual in the British plantation colonies -- Re…
'Thresholds of Meaning' offers evidence not only of a reprise and reworking of certain 'traditional' themes (family, heritage and history; memory and commemoration; the relationships between the generations, between the individual and the community), but also of a reinstatement …