Religious and Social Ritual

Michael B. Aune is Professor of Worship at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Core Doctoral Faculty Member, Arts, Worship, and Proclamation at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of "To Move the Heart": Philip Melanchthon's Rhetorical View of Rite and Its Implications for Contemporary Ritual Theory. Valerie DeMarinis is Associate Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is the author of Critical Caring and co-editor of Clinical Psychology of Religion: European and American Interdisciplinary Explorations.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionPART I: COMPARATIVE EXPLORATIONS Introductory Essay John Hilary Martin1  Bringing the Power of the Past into the Present Murrinh-patha RitualJohn Hilary Martin2  Power in the Palace The Investiture of a Javanese SultanClare B. fischer3  Realizing Inherent Enlightenment Ritual and Self-Transformation in Shingon BuddhismRicahrd K. Payne4  Ritual Power, Ritual Authority Configurations and Reconfigurations in the Era of ManifestationsMartha Ellen StortzPART II:  LITURGICAL EXPLORATIONS Introductory Essay Michael B. Aune5  The Subject of Ritual Ideology and Experience in ActionMichael B. Aune6  "Let Every Tongue, by Art Refined, Mingl Its Softest Notes With Mine" An Exploration of Hymn-Singing Events and Dimensions of KnowingRebecca J. Slough PART III:  CLINICAL EXPLORATIONS  Introductory Essay Valerie DeMarinis7  Ritual and Psychotherapy Similarities and DifferencesVolney P. Gay8  A Psychotherapeutic Exploration of Religious Ritual as Mediator of Memory and Meaning A Clinical Case Presentation of the Therapeutic Efficacy of Incorporating Religious Ritual into TherapyValerie DeMarinis9  The Significance of Ritual in the Case of Joanne Insights from Depth PsychologyJoseph D. Driskill10  Western Hospitalization for Surgery a "Rite of Passage" William R. NoonanContributors Index

"This is a very timely work in a field of enquiry that has tremendous implications for human praxis. It articulates what many skilled practitioners of liturgical and ritual arts have known for centuries, but it does so within new 'episteme' (Foucault) or new styles of knowing and legitimating. It addresses cultural and religious activities that were wrongly denigrated by those rather conceited 'fathers' (and children) of the European Enlightenment. It will be an excellent text for graduate seminars, for theological courses, for intelligent laypeople in many religious traditions, and for a broad spectrum of courses in any contemporary university engaged in cultural studies." — Robert M. Garvin, State University of New York at Albany