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New Rituals--Old Societies: Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel

New Rituals--Old Societies: Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel

Rubin, Nissan

Hardcover

Series: Judaism and Jewish Life

JudaismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1934843350
ISBN13: 9781934843352
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New Rituals - Old Societies examines rituals which were invented by individuals and communities in order to celebrate important turning points. In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals was introduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outside sources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols through the infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology. The term personal definitional rites coined here refers to rites carried out by individuals undergoing a change in identity. Structural analysis supplies an additional dimension to this collection of studies.

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