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Grimes, Ronald L. was born on May 19, 1943 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Milton L. and Joyce Nadine (Williams) Grimes. arrived in Canada, 1974.
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Fictive Ritual explores the ritual dimensions of literary fiction, drama, and autobiography. Among the works it considers are Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, Jean Genet’s The Blacks: A Clown Show, Elie Wiesel’s Gates of the Forest, Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Words, Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro, and Søren Kierkegaard’s Repetition.
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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a topic seldom written about: the evaluation of rites. Enacting ritual and thinking critically are often imagined as mutually exclusive activities, but Ritual Criticism demonstrates their complementarity by presenting case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another. The cases are drawn from contemporary, urban, North American social contexts in which specific rites are undergoing evaluation, interpretation, or revision. The cases eventuate in essays, more theoretical treatments of critical issues in ritual studies. The rituals studied are as varied as the strategies utilized. The diversity of approaches illustrates the ways criticism shifts as types of ritual vary. One rite is a traditional liturgy; another is invented rather than traditional; a third is a hybrid ritual drama; and in a fourth instance the ritualization is so tacit that some would deny that it is ritual at all. Many of the contexts that provide data for the chapters are typified by syncretism, the eclectic mixing and matching of ritual elements from diverse traditions. Other examples involve attempts to engage in ritual invention and experimentation. The essays are likewise diverse, taking readers into territories traditionally the purview of several disciplines. Drama, literature, education, psychology, medicine, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology are traversed in this effort to understand ritual, an unusually complex genre of human activity.
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The author presents a series of case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another and focuses on those rituals that are not always explicitly or obviously religious. The rites discussed by the author include a Roman Catholic liturgy and the excavation of burial remains.
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Symbol and Conquest makes a number of innovative analytical distinctions which Professor Grimes interweaves skillfully with his descriptions of the rituals and symbols of the two dominant public celebrations in modern Santa Fe. This New Mexican city is an especially appropriate subject for the study of symbolic action in a contemporary setting. Santa Fe not only has inherited a rich store of icons, emblems, and insignia from its dramatic past and an arena of conflict and alliance between "Hispanic," "Anglo," and "Indo" peoples and cultures, but also has generated new "signifiers." In addition to the processions and pageants that are the main focus of his book, Grimes considers such important modern sources of symbolism as tourism, the Chamber of Commerce, the civic "establishment," and other by-products of commercialism. He is also sensitive to the ways in which public symbolism is influenced by the resident artistic community and by immigrant, mostly "Anglo," religious groups who are seeking to construct liturgical forms more in keeping with contemporary experience than those of their metrical churches and sects. --Victor W. Turner
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Beginnings in Ritual Studies lays the groundwork for the interdisciplinary study of ritual by broadening the conception of it and articulating its connections to a wide range of cultural activities. Accessible to scholars and students, Beginnings addresses such fundamental issues as definitions, types, and theories of ritual. The volume integrates field research and theory in considering ritual's relation to religious, civil, medical, and theatrical dimensions of culture. The first and second editions garnered widespread praise from the scholarly community and became a standard work in the burgeoning field of ritual studies. In this third edition, Grimes adds a new preface and revises the descriptive and theoretical essays that form the core of the volume.
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Santa Fe is especially appropriate for the study of symbolic action in a contemporary setting. Its dramatic past and the conflicts and alliances between Hispanic, Anglo-American, and Indian peoples have resulted in a complex store of icons, emblems, and insignia. In addition to such symbolic figures and events as Our Lady of the Conquest and the fiesta with its queen and the burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom), Grimes also pays attention to related aspects of Santa Fe symbology that are often overlooked--tourism, commercialism, iconoclasm, and archetypalism.
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Grimes, Ronald L. was born on May 19, 1943 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Milton L. and Joyce Nadine (Williams) Grimes. arrived in Canada, 1974.
Bachelor, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1964; HLD (honorary), Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1984; Master of Divinity, Emory University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary, 1970.
Assistant professor religion, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1970-1974; associate professor, then professor religion, Wilfrid Laurier U., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1974-1984; professor, Wilfrid Laurier U., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, since 1984.
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Member American Academy Religion, American Anthropol. Association.
Married Susan L. Scott, August 18, 1984. Children: Cailleah, Bryn.
