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When Rituals Go Wrong

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Author : Ute Hüsken
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007

When Rituals Go Wrong written by Ute Hüsken and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.

This volume investigates the implications of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. The essays thus break new ground in the comparative analysis of rituals and introduce new perspectives to ritual studies.

Ritual Failure

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Author : Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri
language : en
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Release Date : 2013-12-31

Ritual Failure written by Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri and has been published by Sidestone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with Social Science categories.

‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory? Do societies change and then their ritual? Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society? Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments. The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of ‘ritual failure’ to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed – resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of ‘ritual failure’ is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change. This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.

Ritual Failure

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Author : Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Ritual Failure written by Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Anthropology of religion categories.

Felix Culpa

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Author : Peter-Ben Smit
language : en
Publisher: Novum Testamentum, Supplements
Release Date : 2021-11-04

Felix Culpa written by Peter-Ben Smit and has been published by Novum Testamentum, Supplements this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Religion categories.

"In Felix culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity, Peter-Ben Smit argues that ritual developments were key to the development of early Christianity. Focusing on rituals that go wrong, he shows precisely how ritual infelicities are a catalyst for reflection upon ritual and their development in terms of their performance as well as the meaning attributed to them. Smit discusses texts from the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and provides a chapter on Philo of Alexandria by way of contextualization in the Greco-Roman world. By stressing the importance of ritual, the present book invites a reconsideration of all too doctrinally focused approaches to early Christian communities and identities. It also highlights the embodied and performative character of what being in Christ amounted to two millennia ago"--

The Dysfunction Of Ritual In Early Confucianism

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Author : Michael David Kaulana Ing
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01

The Dysfunction Of Ritual In Early Confucianism written by Michael David Kaulana Ing and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Religion categories.

In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure. If, as discussed in one text, Confucius builds a tomb for his parents unlike the tombs of antiquity, and rains fall causing the tomb to collapse, it is not immediately clear whether this failure was the result of random misfortune or the result of Confucius straying from the ritual script by building a tomb incongruent with those of antiquity. The Liji (Record of Ritual)--one of the most significant, yet least studied, texts of Confucianism--poses many of these situations and suggests that the line between preventable and unpreventable failures of ritual is not always clear. Ritual performance, in this view, is a performance of risk. It entails rendering oneself vulnerable to the agency of others; and resigning oneself to the need to vary from the successful rituals of past, thereby moving into untested and uncertain territory. Ing's book is the first monograph in English about the Liji--a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius's immediate disciples, and included in the earliest canon of Confucian texts called ''The Five Classics,'' several centuries before the Analects. It challenges some common assumptions of contemporary interpreters of Confucian ethics--in particular the idea that a cultivated ritual agent is able to recognize which failures are within his sphere of control to prevent and thereby render his happiness invulnerable to ritual failure.

Casting Down The Host Of Heaven

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Author : Cat Quine
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-23

Casting Down The Host Of Heaven written by Cat Quine and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with Religion categories.

In Casting Down the Host of Heaven Cat Quine analyses the ambiguous nature of the Host and explores the role of ritual in the polemic against their worship.

When Rituals Go Wrong Mistakes Failure And The Dynamics Of Ritual

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Author : Ute Hüsken
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-05-31

When Rituals Go Wrong Mistakes Failure And The Dynamics Of Ritual written by Ute Hüsken and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Religion categories.

Ritual Gone Wrong

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Author : Mcclymond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Ritual Gone Wrong written by Mcclymond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.

Ritual

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Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-09-13

Ritual written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Social Science categories.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Absent Ritual

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Author : Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

Absent Ritual written by Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Rites and ceremonies categories.

"This book is a presentation of case studies of absent rituals, intended to explore absent ritual as a ritual category of its own by distinguishing forms or types of its manifestation, use, and appropriation. Apart from this groundbreaking exploration of a ritual category, this theme of absent ritual fits into a broader trend in ritual studies. In addition to a strong focus on ritual repertoires with a sort of 'canonical' status (rites of passage, death rites, pilgrimage, etc.), attention has recently been paid to more problem-oriented and analytical categories of ritual. These categories focus more explicitly on ritual as a process of action and reaction, on different contexts and thus on the ritual dynamics. The contributors to Absent Ritual engage this tradition of ritual categories and approaches with a very topical ritual category in hand, a type of ritual that enters a very prominent field of ritual dynamics. The first part of the book presents the concept and categories of absent ritual and the second part, the core of the book, consists of thematic case studies illustrating and exploring the categories of absent ritual"--

Ritual Failure

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