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Ritual and Its Consequences - An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Hardcover, New)
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Ritual and Its Consequences - An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Hardcover, New)
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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us
to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of
cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and
anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like
play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of
the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to
cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for
empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the boundaries of these
imagined worlds, including those of empathy and other realms of
human creativity, such as music, architecture and literature.
The authors juxtapose this ritual orientation to a "sincere"
search for unity and wholeness. The sincere world sees
fragmentation and incoherence as signs of inauthenticity that must
be overcome. Our modern world has accepted the sincere viewpoint at
the expense of ritual, dismissing ritual as mere convention. In
response, the authors show how the conventions of ritual allow us
to live together in a broken world. Ritual is work, endless work.
But it is among the most important things that we humans do.
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