Liberating Rites: Understanding The Transformative Power Of Ritual

By Tom F. Driver

In Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual, Tom F. Driver illuminates the making of ritual by removing it from its churchly wrappings and presenting it as something raw,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813334551
• ISBN13: 9780813334554
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Essential Book

While I feel uncertain about the necessity for renaming the book, I unhesitatingly recommend it to everyone with any interest in or connecting to Christianity (or any monotheistic expression of relationship to the Divine), ritual, ceremony, religious anthropology, or desiring a scholarly but readable source to develop work in postmodernism relative to shifting our understanding of what is essential to religious sensibility and the more mysterious portions of human condition.In short. I dug it. It's also an excellent entry to an applied understanding of Liberation Theology.