Experience, Purpose, Pedagogy, and Theory: Ritual Activities in the Classroom

Teaching Ritual

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wallace, Mark I ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; Contemplative practice; Fieldwork; Liminal space; Religion class; Ritual; Teaching

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EID: 84920368812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176452.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Readers may find René Gerard's Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World and The Girard Reader useful. Other works that may also prove especially helpful.
2. Barnhill, David Landis, and Roger S. Gottlieb, eds. 2001. Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground. Albany: State University of New York Press.
3. Gottlieb, Roger S., ed. 2004. This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
4. Grizzly Man. 2005. Film. 104 minutes. Director: Werner Herzog. Lions Gate Films.
5. Smith, Jonathan Z. 2004. Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Zaleski, Philip, and Paul Kaufman. 1997. Gifts of the Spirit: Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditions. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
7. Bell, Catherine. 1992. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Driver, Tom F. 1998. Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.
9. Eyler, Janet, and Dwight E. Giles, Jr. 1999. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
10. Girard, René. 1977. Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
11. Girard, René. 1986. The Scapegoat. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
12. Girard, René. 1987. Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
13. Girard, René. 1999. The Girard Reader. Edited by James G. Williams. New York: Crossroad.
14. Gottlieb, Roger S. 1996. A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. New York: Crossroad.
15. Grimes, Ronald L. 1990. Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
16. Hill, Julia Butterfly. 2000. The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
17. Loy, David. 2002. "The Religion of the Market." In Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment, ed. Richard C. Foltz, 66-75. New York: Wadsworth.
18. McCutcheon, Russell T. 1997. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York: Oxford University Press.
19. McWhorter, Ladelle. 2004. "Rites of Passing: Foucault, Power, and Same-Sex Commitment Ceremonies." In Thinking Through Rituals: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Kevin Schilbrack, 71-96. New York: Routledge.
20. Miller, Richard B., Laurie L. Patton, and Stephen H. Webb. 1994. "Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and the Study of Religions." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62: 819-850.
21. Seed, John et al. 1988. Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers.
22. Van Ness, Peter H. 1996. "Introduction." In Spirituality and the Secular Quest, ed. Peter H. Van Ness, 251-275. New York: Crossroad.
23. Van Ness, Peter H. 2004. "Religious Rituals, Spiritually Disciplined Practices, and Health." In Thinking through Rituals: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Kevin Schilbrack. New York: Routledge.
24. Wallace, Mark I. 2005. Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress.
25. Wiebe, Donald. 1999. The Politics of Religious Studies. New York: Palgrave.
26. Zajonc, Arthur. 2002. Report on the Survey of Transformative and Spiritual Dimensions of Higher Education. Northampton, Mass.: Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.