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Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment

Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment

Henn, Alexander
Koepping, Klaus-Peter

Paperback

Literary CriticismComparative ReligionReligion General

ISBN10: 3631573936
ISBN13: 9783631573938
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jan 15 2008
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Refuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim), intelligibility (Geertz) and dialectics (Turner). Instead, it shows that rituals assert their significance in the post-colonial and globalizing world by successfully negotiating structure and contingency, identity and hybridity, script and embodiment. Its case studies are dealing with a broad variety of ritual genres and expressions, including initiation ceremonies and spirit possession, new harvest ceremonies, cults of ancestors, deities and saints, ceremonial receptions, inaugurations and memorials, ritual theatre, carnival and ritual painting in contemporary Brazil, Germany, France, India, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Vietnam, and Yemen.

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