Marrying and Burying: Rites of Passage in a Man's Life

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Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are just two of the most institutionalized yet troubled ones in our own society. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth, coming of age, and other major transitions.In Marrying & Burying Ronald Grimes, a founder of the new interdisciplinary field of ritual studies, tells an intensely personal story about the role of ritual in his own rich and sometimes difficult life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the extraordinary potential that ritualizing holds for negotiating and enriching transitions, both exalted and mundane. Always ...

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Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are just two of the most institutionalized yet troubled ones in our own society. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth, coming of age, and other major transitions.In Marrying & Burying Ronald Grimes, a founder of the new interdisciplinary field of ritual studies, tells an intensely personal story about the role of ritual in his own rich and sometimes difficult life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the extraordinary potential that ritualizing holds for negotiating and enriching transitions, both exalted and mundane. Always aware that no two people’s experiences are alike, he encourages readers to think critically and creatively about the role of ritual in their own lives.As both subject and theorist, Grimes is unflinchingly honest as well as generous, unsentimental, and wise. Using an impressive array of genres, he examines the problems of inventing the self and of finding rites that can stitch together the torn pieces of a man’s life. Fiction, poetry, journal, and essay create a multivocal text, a symphonic portrayal of the mysterious and intransigent human need to ritualize.This is a book for anyone committed to untangling the meaning of life as actually lived. It offers the student of contemporary North American spirituality and culture a rare opportunity not only to follow an experiencing subject but to glimpse the humanity behind a master theorist’s analysis of ritual. It will attract those who study religion—especially anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists—as well as students of gender studies, men’s studies, education, and literature.

Ronald Grimes, a founder of the new interdisciplinary field of ritual studies, tells an intensely personal story about the tole of ritual in his own life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the extraordinary potential that ritualizing holds for negotiating and enriching transitions, both exalted and mundane.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780813324609
  • Publisher: Westview Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/1995
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 263
  • Lexile: 960L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.01 (w) x 8.96 (h) x 0.64 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Beginning 1
Pt. 1 Initiating
1 Cowboy Christianity 11
2 Good Guys and the Wiles of Perfection 23
3 Guardian of the Thresholds 38
4 Zen Clown 56
Pt. 2 Marrying
5 Marrying by the Book 67
6 Blood Wedding 76
7 A Wedding That Weds 84
Pt. 3 Burying
8 Bird Droppings on the Buddha 105
9 A Funeral Undone 121
10 Words for a Bundling Rite 133
11 Oh, Give Me a Home 142
Pt. 4 Birthing
12 Firstborn 155
13 Birth by Belly 164
14 Birth by Hand 176
15 Cord-Cutting 186
Pt. 5 Practicing
16 The Poetics of Monotony 193
17 Ritual Practice 213
18 The Politics of Practice 232
Ending 251
Notes 261
About the Book and Author 263
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