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Ritual and its Consequences - An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Paperback)
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Ritual and its Consequences - An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Paperback)
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Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the
ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a
convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by
seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first
place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and
post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes rituals
as merely external signs of interior states. This approach, say the
authors, is part of a far larger way of relating to the self and to
the world, which they label "sincerity." But ritual, they say, is
the very opposite of sincerity because it consists of stylized,
repetitive interactions that construct an "as if" world, a world of
role, propriety, play, and even fantasy, rather than pointing to
the world as it actually is. In fact, that is ritual's great
contribution. Ritual modes of behavior make a shared social world
possible by helping to navigate between diverse people and groups,
rather than attempting to transcend and efface boundaries. After
setting forth this argument, the authors go on to build on it by
showing how sincerity and ritual are stand-ins for two very
different ways of being in the world. Although both modes are
always present to some degree, modernity has deeply privileged
sincerity and authenticity. And, they say, we are now paying a
heavy price for this extreme and often totalizing projection of
personality in contemporary political life.
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