Ritual Action is a structured, symbolic behavior within a liturgical or religious context that enacts sacred narratives or theological meanings through prescribed gestures, words, and objects, distinguishing it from spontaneous or secular forms of religious expression by its formal, repetitive, and communally sanctioned character.
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Ritual Acts
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Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
Frederick Bird, Catherine Bell · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1999 · 1.4K citations
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Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
4 h-index
7 publications
247 citations
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
4 h-index
8 publications
621 citations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
3 h-index
4 publications
96 citations
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
3 h-index
3 publications
123 citations
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
3 h-index
3 publications
420 citations
University College London
London, United Kingdom
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2 publications
132 citations
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
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2 publications
42 citations
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, United States
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3 publications
502 citations
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- Journal of Cognition and Culture
9 publications · 340 citations
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
JRAI · 6 publications · 454 citations
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- American Ethnologist
AE · 5 publications · 437 citations
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- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
JSSR · 5 publications · 1.5K citations
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- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
4 publications · 158 citations
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