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Rituals in an Unstable World - Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment (Paperback, New edition)
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Rituals in an Unstable World - Contingency - Hybridity - Embodiment (Paperback, New edition)
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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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