Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of SincerityOxford University Press, 24. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 248 This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the boundaries of these imagined worlds, including those of empathy and other realms of human creativity, such as music, architecture and literature. The authors juxtapose this ritual orientation to a "sincere" search for unity and wholeness. The sincere world sees fragmentation and incoherence as signs of inauthenticity that must be overcome. Our modern world has accepted the sincere viewpoint at the expense of ritual, dismissing ritual as mere convention. In response, the authors show how the conventions of ritual allow us to live together in a broken world. Ritual is work, endless work. But it is among the most important things that we humans do. |
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... practice (of a certain kind) makes up the stuff of ritual. A book on ritual hovers somewhere between the two: a bit more of a joint social world than shared speech and perhaps a bit less than shared practice. This book originated in an ...
... practice (of a certain kind) makes up the stuff of ritual. A book on ritual hovers somewhere between the two: a bit more of a joint social world than shared speech and perhaps a bit less than shared practice. This book originated in an ...
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... practice and performance, but a very particular approach to performance that frames our actions and orientations in a unique manner not always noted in the broader literature on ritual. In trying to make sense of all this, we found ...
... practice and performance, but a very particular approach to performance that frames our actions and orientations in a unique manner not always noted in the broader literature on ritual. In trying to make sense of all this, we found ...
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... practice of ritual is not unlike the practice of conversation (at least as the ancients and medievals saw conversation). Both require coordination, shared fellowship, trust, the circumscription of the will, and the ability to abide in ...
... practice of ritual is not unlike the practice of conversation (at least as the ancients and medievals saw conversation). Both require coordination, shared fellowship, trust, the circumscription of the will, and the ability to abide in ...
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... practice in response to congregant demands.1 We also see the spread of orthodoxies defined in part through ritual action—orthopraxies might in fact be a better term— including the growth of Islamic identities in many regions, the ...
... practice in response to congregant demands.1 We also see the spread of orthodoxies defined in part through ritual action—orthopraxies might in fact be a better term— including the growth of Islamic identities in many regions, the ...
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1 Ritual and the Subjunctive | 17 |
2 Ambiguity Ambivalence and Boundaries | 43 |
3 Ritual Play and Boundaries | 69 |
4 Ritual and Sincerity | 103 |
5 Movements of Ritual and Sincerity | 131 |
Afterword | 179 |
Notes | 183 |
References | 199 |
Index | 213 |
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