Required Readings:
Bird, Frederick. "The Contemporary Ritual Milieu." RITUALS AND CEREMONIES
IN POPULAR CULTURE. Edited by Ray Browne. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green
University Popular Press, 1980, pp. 19-35.
Cheal, David. "Ritual: Communication in Action." SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 53
(1992): 363-374.
Grimes, Ronald. "Modes of Ritual Sensibility." BEGINNINGS IN RITUAL STUDIES.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995, pp.
40-57.
Turner, Victor. "Liminality and Communitas." THE RITUAL PROCESS: STRUCTURE
AND ANTI- STRUCTURE. Chicago: Aldine, 1969, pp. 94-113.
Supplementary Readings:
Bird, Frederick. "Charisma and Ritual in New Religious Movements." UNDERSTANDING
THE NEW RELIGIONS. Edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. New York:
Seabury Press, 1978, pp. 173-189.
Moore, Sally and Barbara Myerhoff. Secular Ritual: Forms and Meanings. SECULAR
RITUAL. Edited by Sally Moore and Barbara Myerhoff. Van Gorcum: Assen, Netherlands,
1977, pp. 3-24.
Trice, Harrison and Janice Beyer. "Studying Organizational Cultures Through
Rites and Ceremonials." THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 9 (October 1984):
653-669.
Turner, Terence. "Transformation, Hierarchy and Transcendence: A Reformulation
of Van Gennep's Model of the Structure of Rites De Passage." SECULAR RITUAL.
Edited by Sally Moore and Barbara Myerhoff. Van Gorcum: Assen, Netherlands,
1977, pp. 53-70.
Turner, Victor. "Social Dramas and Stories about Them." CRITICAL INQUIRY
7 (1980): 141-168.
Turner, Victor. Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage."
THE FOREST OF SYMBOLS: ASPECTS OF NDEMBU RITUAL. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1967, pp, 93-111.
Turner, Victor. "Variations on a Theme of Liminality." SECULAR RITUAL. Edited
by Sally Moore and Barbara Myerhoff. Van Gorcum: Assen, Netherlands, 1977,
pp. 36-52.
Turner, Victor. "Metaphors of Anti-structure in Religious Culture." DRAMAS,
FIELDS, AND METAPHORS: SYMBOLIC ACTION IN HUMAN SOCIETY. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1974, pp. 272-299.
Wilson, John. "Themes of Power and Control in a Pentecostal Assembly."
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION 20 (1981): 241-250.