The topic of religious and ritual change, including conversion from one modality of practices to another, has emerged in recent years as a prime focus of scholarly attention in anthropology and related disciplines, such as history, sociology, political science and religious studies. Conversion to Christianity is one focus that has developed within this broad and dynamic field ...(展开全部)

The topic of religious and ritual change, including conversion from one modality of practices to another, has emerged in recent years as a prime focus of scholarly attention in anthropology and related disciplines, such as history, sociology, political science and religious studies. Conversion to Christianity is one focus that has developed within this broad and dynamic field ...(展开全部)

This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international r...(展开全部)

This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international r...(展开全部)

Examines the history and purpose of political rituals, discusses examples from Aztec cannibal rites to presidential inauguration, and argues that the use of ritual determines the success of political groups.

大卫•科泽（David I. Kertzer，1948— ），美国著名人类学家、人口学家、历史学家、意大利研究专家，美国艺术与科学院（AAAC）院士，曾任美国社会科学历史学会（SSHA）主席，布朗大学教务长。主要研究领域为仪式与象征、政治与文化、欧洲社会史、人口人类学、政治经济学和家庭系统、宗教人类学和意大利社会政治等。出版和发表了多部重要著作和多篇论文，曾获国家图书奖（非虚构类，1997）、年度100本最佳著作奖（1997，2002）、《出版周刊》年度最佳著作奖（2004）等，在社会和学界都有巨大的影响力，其作品由奥斯卡最佳编剧奖和普利策奖得主Alfred Uhry改编为剧本上演。

Catherine Bell is at Santa Clara University, California.

As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary ...(展开全部)

简·艾伦·哈里森（Jane Ellen Harrison，1850-1928），西方古典学历史上里程碑式的人物，剑桥学派“神话一仪式”学说的创立者；英国维多利亚时代的文坛女杰，同时也是现代女权主义的学术奠基人之。她广涉古典学、考古学、人类学、语言学、美学、神话学、历史学等诸多学科，掌握了包括德语、拉丁语、希腊语、希伯来语、波斯语、俄语等在内的十六种语言。著述宏富，已翻译成中文的有：《希腊宗教研究导论》（Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion,1903）、《古希腊宗教的社会起源》（Themis:A Study of the Social Origins of the Greek Religion，1912）等。

阿诺德·约瑟夫·汤因比（Arnold Joseph Toynbee，1889—1975），英国著名历史学家，也是20世纪具有国际影响的几位历史学家。毕业于牛津大学。先后任职于牛津大学、伦敦大学和英国外交部等机构，1919年和1946年分别以英国政府代表的身份参加两次世界大战结束后的巴黎和平会议。1926年起担任英国皇家国际问题研究所部长（一直任职到1953年为止）。以《历史研究》为代表的一系列著作为他赢得了世界性声誉，他也因此而被誉为“近世以来伟大的历史学家”。