The Editorial Board:
Preface to the Series "Ritual Dynamcis and the Science of Ritual"
SECTION I: GRAMMAR AND MORPHOLOGY OF RITUAL
Edited by Axel Michaels and Anand Mishra
Axel Michaels and Anand Mishra:
Introduction. 3
Axel Michaels:
The Grammar of Rituals. 7
Jan E. Houben:
Formal Structure and Self-referential Loops in Vedic Ritual. 29
Olga Serbaeva Saraogi:
When to Kill Means to Liberate: Two Types of Ritual Actions in Vidyāpīṭha Texts. 65
Anand Mishra:
On the Possibilities of a Pāṇinian Paradigm for a Rule-based Description of Rituals. 85
Axel Michaels (in collaboration with Johanna Buss):
The Dynamics of Ritual Formality: The Morphology of Newar Death Rituals. 99
Cezary Galewicz:
Inscribing Scripture Through Ritual: On the Ritual Cycle of Trisandhā. 117
Martin Gaenszle:
Grammar in Ritual Speech: The Use of Binomials in Rai Invocations. 141
Johannes Bronkhorst:
Ritual, Holophrastic Utterances, and the Symbolic Mind. 159
J.C. Heesterman:
The Development and Impact of Ancient Indian Ritual. 203
Annette Wilke:
Basic Categories of a Syntactical Approach to Rituals: Arguments for a “Unitary Ritual View” and the Paraśurāma-Kalpasūtra as “Test-Case”. 215
Timothy Lubin:
Ritual Self-Discipline as a Response to the Human Condition: Toward a Semiotics of Ritual Indices. 263
Rich Freeman:
Pedagogy and Practice: The Meta-pragmatics of Tantric Rites in Kerala. 275
Frederick M. Smith:
Historical Symmetry and Ritual Asymmetry: The Interrelations Between Vedic Ritual and Temple Construction in Modern India. 307
Frits Staal:
A Theory of Ritual: The Indo-Iranian Fire Offering. 331
SECTION II: RITUAL DISCOURSE, RITUAL PERFORMANCE IN CHINA AND JAPAN
Edited by Lucia Dolce, Gil Raz and Katja Triplett
Lucia Dolce, Gil Raz and Katja Triplett:
Introduction. 355
Michael Puett:
Ritualization as Domestication: Ritual Theory from Classical China. 359
Joachim Gentz:
“Living in the Same House”: Ritual Principles in Early Chinese Reflections on Mourning Garments. 371
Christian Meyer:
Interpretations of Confucian Ritual (“li”) in Chinese Scholarly Discussions in the Eleventh Century. 397
Gil Raz:
Ritual Theory in Medieval Daoism. 407
Julius Tsai 蔡南亭:
Mutation or Permutation? A Ritual Debate in Tang-Song Daoism. 425
Lucia Dolce:
The Contested Space of Buddhist Public Rituals: The shunie of Tōdaiji. 433
Fumi Ouchi:
Buddhist Liturgical Chanting in Japan: Vocalisation and the Practice of Attaining Buddhahood. 459
Katja Triplett:
Esoteric Buddhist Eye-healing Rituals in Japan and the Promotion of Benefits. 485
M.A. Butler:
Ritual Specialists and Collective Agency in Song Dynasty China. 501
Paul S. Atkins:
The Stages of Seppuku: Performing Self-Execution in Premodern Japan. 523
Poul Andersen:
The Life of Images in Daoist Ritual. 535
Benedetta Lomi:
The Iconography of Ritual: Images, Texts and Beliefs in the Batō Kannon Fire Offering. 557
Abstracts. 579
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