This volume investigates the implications of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. The essays thus break new gr

The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined

The present volume is entirely dedicated to the investigation of the implications and effects of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinc

Michael Ing's The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism is the first monograph in English about the Liji--a text that purports to be the writings of Confu

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, gen