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The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (Oxford Ritual Studies) by William Sax (editor), Johannes Quack (editor), Jan Weinhold (editor) is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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This collection of 10 contributed essays is the first to explicitly address the question of ritual efficacy. The authors do not aspire to answer the question 'how do rituals work?' in a simplistic fashion, but rather to show how complex the question is. While some contributors do indeed advance a particular theory of ritual efficacy, others ask whether the question makes any sense at all, and most show how complex it is by referring to the sociocultural environment in which it is posed, since th

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Author

William Sax (editor), Johannes Quack (editor), Jan Weinhold (editor)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195394405

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Anthropology, Folklore

Updated

2026-03-25