This book identifies the three major functions of ritual as making and preserving order, fostering and encouraging community, and bringing about social transformation. In the last chapter, Driver offers an imaginative vision of "what Christian ritual could be if people were persuaded to play it, like very good music, in a new way."
The Magic of Ritual Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities
Offers a substantive treatment of this meaning maker.
