Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: COMPARATIVE EXPLORATIONS Introductory Essay John Hilary Martin 1 Bringing the Power of the Past into the Present Murrinh-patha Ritual John Hilary Martin 2 Power in the Palace The Investiture of a Javanese Sultan Clare B. fischer 3 Realizing Inherent Enlightenment Ritual and Self-Transformation in Shingon Buddhism Ricahrd K. Payne 4 Ritual Power, Ritual Authority Configurations and Reconfigurations in the Era of Manifestations Martha Ellen Stortz PART II: LITURGICAL EXPLORATIONS Introductory Essay Michael B. Aune 5 The Subject of Ritual Ideology and Experience in Action Michael B. Aune 6 "Let Every Tongue, by Art Refined, Mingl Its Softest Notes With Mine" An Exploration of Hymn-Singing Events and Dimensions of Knowing Rebecca J. Slough PART III: CLINICAL EXPLORATIONS Introductory Essay Valerie DeMarinis 7 Ritual and Psychotherapy Similarities and Differences Volney P. Gay 8 A Psychotherapeutic Exploration of Religious Ritual as Mediator of Memory and Meaning A Clinical Case Presentation of the Therapeutic Efficacy of Incorporating Religious Ritual into Therapy Valerie DeMarinis 9 The Significance of Ritual in the Case of Joanne Insights from Depth Psychology Joseph D. Driskill 10 Western Hospitalization for Surgery a "Rite of Passage" William R. Noonan Contributors Index
Michael B. Aune is Professor of Worship at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Core Doctoral Faculty Member, Arts, Worship, and Proclamation at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of "To Move the Heart": Philip Melanchthon's Rhetorical View of Rite and Its Implications for Contemporary Ritual Theory. Valerie DeMarinis is Associate Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is the author of Critical Caring and co-editor of Clinical Psychology of Religion: European and American Interdisciplinary Explorations.
"This is a very timely work in a field of enquiry that has tremendous implications for human praxis. It articulates what many skilled practitioners of liturgical and ritual arts have known for centuries, but it does so within new 'episteme' (Foucault) or new styles of knowing and legitimating. It addresses cultural and religious activities that were wrongly denigrated by those rather conceited 'fathers' (and children) of the European Enlightenment. It will be an excellent text for graduate seminars, for theological courses, for intelligent laypeople in many religious traditions, and for a broad spectrum of courses in any contemporary university engaged in cultural studies." - Robert M. Garvin, State University of New York at Albany
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