Department of Religious Studies

REL 342.001

Theories of Ritual

T | 3:30-5:50

MA 210

As a way of introducing how scholars theorize rituals, this seminar tackles the problem of how the actions that we name as rituals are related to those internal dispositions that we commonly know as beliefs. For, based on a specific understanding of the individual, it is commonly assumed that behaviors are merely secondary, motivated by, and thus expressions of, a person’s prior mental state. This class asks whether it might actually be the opposite. W

Russell T. McCutcheon

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