Books

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Please note that the following books, once out of print, are now available in new editions from Amazon.com: Beginnings in Ritual Studies, Ritual Criticism, and Marrying & Burying. If you are interested in using them in the classroom, please contact me and I will provide you with a discount code so your bookstore or students can order them more cheaply. If you want to use chapters or other parts of these three books, please ask your bookstore to contact me rather than the books’ original publishers.

2011     Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Co-edited with Ute Huesken, Udo Simon, and Eric Venbrux. Oxford Ritual Studies Series. Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN13: 9780199735549; ISBN10: 0199735549

2006      Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts. New York: Oxford University Press. HB: 0195301447; PB: 0195301455.

2003      Disaster Ritual: Explorations of an Emerging Ritual Repertoire. Co-edited with Paul Post and others. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 90-429-1291.

2000      Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Life Passages Series, vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 0 – 520 – 21533 – 8.

1996       Readings in Ritual Studies. Edited by Ronald L. Grimes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 0-02-347253-7. Modified German-language version edited by Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger. Ritualtheorien: Ein Einführendes Handbuch. Opladen/Wiesbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998.

1995       Marrying & Burying: Rites of Passage in a Man’s Life. 1st edition: Boulder, CO: Westview Press, PB: 0-8133-2460-2; HB: 0-8133-2459-9. 2nd edition: Ritual Studies International, 2010, ISBN-10: 1453778977;  ISBN-13: 978-1453778975.

1993       Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing: Ritual in Fictive, Liturgical, and Public Places. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press; Oregon Catholic Press. 1 – 56929 – 007 – 5. On sale from the publisher for $3.00 from the press.

1990       Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in its Practice, Essays on its Theory. 1st edition: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 0 – 87249 – 692 – 9. 2nd edition: Ritual Studies International, 2010, ISBN-10: 1453758240, ISBN-13: 978-1453758243.

1976       Symbol and Conquest: Public Ritual and Drama in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1st edition: Symbol, Myth and Ritual Series. Ed. Victor Turner. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 0 – 8014 – 1037 – 1. 2nd edition: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992, 0 – 8263 – 1372 – 8. Spanish edition: 1981. Symbolo y Conquista. Spanish ed. Trans. David Huerta y Paloma Villegas. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica. 968 – 16 – 0683 – 3.

1982   Beginnings in Ritual Studies. 1st edition: Washington, DC: University Press of America, 0-8191-221-4.  2nd edition: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994, 1-57003-001-4.  3rd edition: Ritual Studies International, 2010, ISBN-10: 1453752625; ISBN-13: 978-1453752623

1985    Research in Ritual Studies. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press and the American Theological Library Association. 0 – 8108 – 1762 – 4.

1972    The Divine Imagination: William Blake’s Major Prophetic Visions. ATLA Monograph Series, No. 1. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press and the American Theological Library Association. 0 – 8108 – 0539 – 1.