The Ambivalence of Denial
Danger and Appeal of Rituals
Rituals, as universal modes of human action, are always evaluated and criticized. Humans seem to need rituals, but they also reject them. Criticism is an inevitable part of ritual traditions, and is often even part of a ritual itself. Denial and critique are forms of relation, albeit defined in negative terms: even new or renewed traditions always strongly relate to the old and rejected. A ritual then becomes an ideal ground to negotiate and fight over ideologies, modernity and backwardness, tradition and innovation, and diverging ideologies. This volume deals with different forms of denial and the critique of rituals, and uses the denial of…
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Weitere Autoren: Simon, Udo (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-447-19520-1
- EAN: 9783447195201
- Produktnummer: 20043471
- Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 315 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'703 KB
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