Hi all
Grimes (sorry don't have reference to hand but it's probably one of the
three papers below) has a useful table outlining the distinguishing
characteristics of ritual, ceremony, magic, etc. Magic is calling on
power; prayer is waiting on power, according to his outline.
Yvonne
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GRIMES, Ronald. 1990a. Victor Turner's Definition, Theory and Sense of
Ritual, in Victor Turner and the Construction of Social Criticism: Between
Literature and Anthropology, edited by K. Ashley. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press:141-146.
GRIMES, Ronald. 1990b. Emerging Ritual, in Proceedings of the North
American Academy of Liturgy, Valparaiso, IN: NAAL, 15-31.
GRIMES, Ronald. 1992. Reinventing Ritual. Soundings 75(1):21-41.
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