Ritual, Media, and Conflict (Hardcover, New)

Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, maintaining, and challenging political and economic power, as well as in determining the nature of religious practice. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Here, an interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each chapter, built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict, is multi-authored. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	March 2011
Editors:	Ronald L. Grimes • Ute Husken (Professor of Sanskrit) • Udo Simon (Research Associate, Islamic Studies) • Eric Venbrux (Professor of Anthropology)
Dimensions:	239 x 162 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-973523-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	0-19-973523-9
Barcode:	9780199735235

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