Teaching ritual / edited by Catherine Bell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Living a double consciousness / Richard Schechner -- Still liminal after all these years: teaching ordeals and peregrinations / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Dancing ritual, ritual dancing: experiential teaching / Sam Gill -- Field trip and its role in teaching ritual / David Pinault -- Experience, purpose, pedagogy, and theory: ritual activities in the classroom / Mark I. Wallace -- Ritualizing Zen and the art of writing / Ronald L. Grimes -- Teaching ritual propriety and authority through Japanese religions / John Nelson -- Camp meeting and the paradoxes of evangelical Protestant ritual / Ann Taves -- Ritual from five angles: a tool for teaching / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Teaching rites ritually / Mary E. McGann -- Teaching the cognitive approach / Theodore Vial -- Religion through ritual / Catherine Bell -- Teaching healing rituals/ritual healing / Susan S. Sered and Linda L. Barnes -- Reflections on ritual in Noh and Kyōgen / Richard A. Gardner -- Ritual performance and ritual practice: teaching the multiple forms and dimensions of ritual / Linda Ekstrom and Richard D. Hecht -- Eventfulness of architecture: teaching about sacred architecture is teaching about ritual / Lindsay Jones -- Ritual and the writing class / Christopher I. Lehrich.