ISBN:
9781531013646
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 253 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
203/.8
Keywords:
Ritual
;
Ritual / Case studies
;
Rites and ceremonies / Case studies
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Ritual
;
Case studies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ritual
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Emerging ritual : divorce ritual / Martin Hoondert -- Disappearing ritual : redundant church buildings / Paul Post -- Ritual indifference : cremation rituals in the Netherlands in the late 1960s-1980s / Martin Hoondert -- Banned ritual : ritual absences in Mormon weddings / Walter van Beek -- Ritual selectivity : commemorating the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut / William Arfman -- Non-healing rituals and how to build a peaceful future : between memory and oblivion / Martin Hoondert -- Postponed ritual at the site of a monument : the case of stillborn children / Laurie Faro -- Unseen ritual : the Saenredam church interiors / Paul Post -- Vicarious ritual : requiem concerts as vicarious All Souls' Day ritual / Martin Hoondert -- Absent ritual through ritual secrecy and concealment / Paul Post -- @Ritual : contested and inauthentic / Paul Post
Permalink
