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By Our Rites of Worship

Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice

Daniel L. Belnap, Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Latter-day Saints and the Perception of Ritual
    Daniel L. Belnap
  • Part 1: A Framework
  • Ritual and the Quest for Meaning
    Walter E. A. van Beek
  • Culture, Cohesion, and Conceptualizing the Sacred
    John P. Hoffmann
  • Part 2: The Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
  • The Politics of Feasting in the Ancient Near East
    Ronan James Head
  • The Eternal Nature of the Family in Egyptian Beliefs
    Michael D. Rhodes
  • The Marriage of Adam and Eve: Ritual and Literary Elements
    RoseAnn Benson
  • The “Ceremony of the Shoe”: A Ritual of God’s Ancient Covenant People
    Alonzo L. Gaskill
  • Part 3: The New Testament World
  • The Doctrine of Baptism: Immersions at Qumran and the Baptisms of John, the Earliest Christians, and Book of Mormon Peoples
    Stephen D. Ricks
  • Reading the Gospel of Philip as a Temple Text
    Gaye Strathearn
  • Part 4: The Modern World
  • “Those Who Receive You Not”: The Rite of Wiping Dust Off the Feet
    Daniel L. Belnap
  • Embodied Authority: Priesthood Ordination and the Laws of the Mortal Body
    Aaron Reeves
  • “Pouring in Oil”: The Development of the Modern Mormon Healing Ritual
    Jonathan A. Stapley
  • Imaging a Global Religion, American Style: Mormon Pageantry as a Ritual of Community Formation
    Megan Jones
  • Ritual as a Process of Deification
    Michael Ing
  • Sacramental Living: Reflections on Latter-day Saint Ritual
    Robert L. Millet
  • Sisters in Transition: Moving from the Buna Coffee Ritual to Relief Society
    Jennifer Brinkerhoff Platt
  • Index

About the Book

Winner of the Harvey B. Black and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (Gospel Scholarship in Ancient Scripture). While negative meanings are often attached to the words rite and ritual, these terms simply mean “with correct religious procedure; in the manner required, properly, duly, correctly, rightly, fittingly.” Thus, the term perfectly describes an array of practices within our church, including baptism, the laying on of hands, and temple ordinances. This book explores the relationship between the performance of priesthood ordinances (or rituals) and the power of godliness that is mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 84. Just as in biblical and Book of Mormon times, rites are an essential part of God’s plan for his children. The messages in this book help us understand ritual and its profound role within the Church so that we are able to recognize the transforming power of our rites of worship.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2741-2

Published in 2013

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