Rituals and Religious Innovation. The Meaning of Rituals in Shan the Rising Light

This paper presents an example of how rituals may play an important role in the birth of a new religion, and how this religious innovation can be interpreted through the  rituals. This example concerns a religious group — Shan the Rising Light — that has managed to introduce a comprehensive body of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mikael Rothstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 1993-01-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67217