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Journal articles on the topic "Secular ritual"
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Liu, Huwy-Min Lucia. "Ritual and pluralism: Incommensurable values and techniques of commensurability in contemporary urban Chinese funerals." Critique of Anthropology 40, no. 1 (January 8, 2020): 102–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275x19899447.
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The default funeral in Shanghai today consists of religious variations of a secular socialist civil ritual. Within this ritual, however, is a clear paradox: how can one create religious “variations” of a secular and socialist funeral that explicitly denies any recognition of spirits or the afterlife? How do socialist, religious, Confucian, and even Christian ideas of personhood and death become commensurable in one single ritual? This paper explores the relationships between incommensurable values through commemorations of the dead in Shanghai. This article not only shows how a single ritual can realize multiple seemingly incommensurable values but also details two different techniques for making such incommensurable values commensurable. My findings show that what makes value pluralism possible depends on how people conceptualize rituals. When people see rituals as following social conventions, there is more space for pluralism, but when people treat rituals as making personal testimonies, the possibility for pluralism decreases.
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Austern, Linda Phyllis, John Taverner, and Hugh Benham. "Ritual Music and Secular Songs." Notes 43, no. 2 (December 1986): 403. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/897398.
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van Ommen, Armand Léon. "Emerging ritual in secular societies: a transdisciplinary conversation / Crafting secular ritual: a practical guide." Practical Theology 11, no. 2 (March 15, 2018): 192–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2018.1459120.
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Wojtkowiak, Joanna. "Ritualizing Pregnancy and Childbirth in Secular Societies: Exploring Embodied Spirituality at the Start of Life." Religions 11, no. 9 (September 8, 2020): 458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11090458.
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Birth is the beginning of a new life and therefore a unique life event. In this paper, I want to study birth as a fundamental human transition in relation to existential and spiritual questions. Birth takes place within a social and cultural context. A new member of society is entering the community, which also leads to feelings of ambiguity and uncertainty. Rituals are traditionally ways of giving structure to important life events, but in contemporary Western, secular contexts, traditional birth rituals have been decreasing. In this article, I will theoretically explore the meaning of birth from the perspectives of philosophy, religious and ritual studies. New ritual fields will serve as concrete examples. What kind of meanings and notions of spirituality can be discovered in emerging rituals, such as mother’s blessings or humanist naming ceremonies? Ritualizing pregnancy and birth in contemporary, secular society shows that the coming of a new life is related to embodied, social and cultural negotiations of meaning making. More attention is needed in the study of ritualizing pregnancy and birth as they reveal pluralistic spiritualities within secular contexts, as well as deeper cultural issues surrounding these strategies of meaning making.
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Parmadie, Bambang, and I. Gede Arya Sugiartha. "Expansion Of Value And Form Dol Musicality As Ritual Tabot In Bengkulu." Lekesan: Interdisciplinary Journal of Asia Pacific Arts 1, no. 1 (May 22, 2018): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31091/lekesan.v1i1.301.
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The expansion of value and form musicality in Tabot ritual music includes ideology, musicality and new sociocultural phenomena in the performing arts extend to all elements of Bengkulu society in general. The sacred music referred to in the Tabot rituals of Bengkulu is Dol music. The transformations in forms of Dol music and musicality are: sacred musicality becomes secular or profane. The physical form, function, and aesthetic of Dol music in Tabot rituals have an ever-increasing creativity in their development, musical progress and sociocultural-supporter progress. The commodification of Dol music transforms the artistic identity associated with new music from Bengkulu. The development of musicality moves freely, making changes in sacred ideology. This analysis reveals problems using social practice theory, hegemonic theory, and popular culture theory, applied eclectically by using a qualitative method. Data is collected Through observation, interview, and document study. The findings of this research are that there are forms of exploration and exploitation of Dol music from sacred to secular or profane and vice versa in the context of the commodification of physical musicality, function, and aesthetics in the ideological identity of the supporting community and the musical space dimension. The secular or profane Dol music permeates and indoctrinates the sacred Dol musical ideology as the musical ceremony of Tabot ritual. The counter-assumption about a sacred art form that will experience a shift into secular or profane is not entirely true for Dol music in Bengkulu.
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Tegos, Spyridon. "Civility and Civil Religion before and after the French Revolution: Religious and Secular Rituals in Hume and Tocqueville." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (April 10, 2020): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020048.
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In his critique of religion, Hume envisages forms of religious ritual disconnected from the superstitious “neurotic” mindset; he considers simple rituals fostering moderation. In this paper, I claim that one can profitably interpret Hume’s obsession with secular rituals, such as French highly ceremonial manners, in the sense of anxiety-soothing institutions that bind citizenry without the appeal to a civil religion, properly speaking. Let us call this path the Old Regime’s civil ritualism”. Overall, Tocqueville conceives rituals in a Humean spirit, as existential anxiety-soothing institutions. Moving beyond the Humean line of thought, he focuses on the ambiguous role of religious rituals in the context of democratic faith and the Christian civil religion that he deems appropriate for the US. Yet, he also detects novel forms of superstition firmly embedded in secular, democratic faith.
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Koster, Jan. "Ritual performance and the politics of identity." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4, no. 2 (June 6, 2003): 211–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.4.2.05kos.
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The theory of ritual presented in this article is based on the notion of “territory.” Ritual performance encompasses a set of techniques to affect the identity of participants: away from individuality and by communal demarcation of a symbolic territorial model in space or time. The form of ritual is seen as autonomous, i.e. as relatively independent of meaning. As a set of identity-affecting techniques, the elements of ritual can be integrated into both religious and secular settings. There is a natural tension between individuality, responsibility and the potentially totalitarian implications of ritual discourse. Ritual is claimed to be relatively harmless with respect to the symbolic territories of designated “sacred spaces”, while it is considered dangerous under conditions of “overflow”, when the elements of ritual are brought into public space. The harmful secular religions of the past two centuries are discussed, culminating in a plea for the separation between Ritual and State.
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Acabado, Stephen, and Marlon Martin. "The Sacred and the Secular: Practical Applications of Water Rituals in the Ifugao Agricultural System." TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 307–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/trn.2016.7.
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AbstractWater symbolisms permeate Ifugao religion, rituals, and oral tradition. Water plays a part in death, rebirth, and cleansing in Ifugao cosmology. As such, Ifugaos consider water as sacred. However, water is also central in Ifugao economy and politics. As a culture that highly values intensive wet-rice production in a mountain environment, managing access to water is necessary to maintain stability. Ifugao practices follow what Richard O'Connor described as the “agro-cultural complex” in which agricultural practices, social systems, and political, historical, and, cultural changes are understood as interlocking processes (O'Connor 1995). In this paper, we focus on the relationship between Ifugao water and agricultural rituals with the synchronizing and sequencing of agricultural activities. Using the concept of self-organization, we argue that water and agricultural rituals in Ifugao are not only meant to reinforce community cohesion, they also synchronize the farming activities crucial to a terraced ecology. Utilizing the practice of puntunaan (a ritual plot or parcel in the centre of an agricultural district) and the institution of tomona (the ritual leader of an agricultural district) as a case study, we observed that disruptions in the water and rice rituals stimulated great change in Ifugao sociopolitical organization.
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Sroczyńska, Maria. "Rituals of entering adulthood in the religious and secular space (sociological reflections)." Studia z Teorii Wychowania XII, no. 2(35) (July 1, 2021): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.0455.
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The text deals with the rituals of passage, granting and approval accompanying entering adulthood. These considerations refer to both theoretical issues, taking into account the typology of rituals proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, and to selected results of own research (quantitative and qualitative) carried out at the end of the first decade of the 21st century among high school graduates of the Świętokrzyskie region. The ritual practices that are still important for young people (confirmation, "eighteenth" and high school graduation) were taken into account, although the manner of their celebration and the functions performed are subject to more or less significant transformations.
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Rohmaniyah, Inayah, and Mark Woodward. "Wahhabism, Identity, and Secular Ritual: Graduation at an Indonesian High School." Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 50, no. 1 (June 26, 2012): 119–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2012.501.119-145.
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This paper concerns the social and ritual construction of social identities at Pondok Pesantren Madrasah Wathoniyah Islamiyah (PPMWI), a theologically Wahhabi oriented pesantren (traditional Islamic school) in Central Java, Indonesia. We focus on the inter-play of religious and secular symbols in the school’s graduation ceremonies (wisuda) for secondary school students and the ways it contributes to the construction of individual and social identities. Our analysis builds on Turner’s studies of the processual logic of rites of passage, Moore and Meyerhoff’s distinction between religious and secular ritual and Tambiah’s application of the Piercian concept of indexical symbols to the analysis of ritual. Theoretically we will be concerned with ritual, cognitive and social processes involved in the construction of religious identities. Empirically, we critique the common assumption that Salafi, and more specifically, Wahhabi, religious teachings contribute to the construction of exclusivist identities, social conflict and violence. In the case we are concerned with, religious tolerance and non-violence are among the defining features of Wahhabi identity.[Tulisan membahas konstruksi identitas ritual dan sosial pada sebuah pesantren yang berorientasi teologi Wahhabi, yaitu Pondok Pesantren Madrasah Wathoniyah Islamiyah (PPMWI). Diskusi akan difokuskan pada saling silang simbol-simbol agama dan sekuler dalam peringatan wisuda siswa menengah pertama serta signifikansinya dalam konstruksi identitas sosial dan individual. Analisis tulisan ini berdasarkan studi Turner mengenai logika proses dalam daur ritus (the processual logic of rites of passage), pembagian ritual agama dan sekuler oleh Moore dan Meyerhoff serta konsep Piercian mengenai indek simbolis dalam ritual oleh Tambiah. Secara teoritis, artikel ini akan mendiskusikan ritual, kognisi, dan proses sosial yang menjadi bagian dalam konstruksi identitas agama. Selain itu, penulis juga melakukan kritik terhadap pandangan umum mengenai Wahhabi yang dituduh sebagai identitas ekslusif, biang-kerok konflik sosial dan kekerasan. Penulis menemukan sebaliknya, bahwa toleransi antar agama dan anti-kekerasan adalah salah satu ciri identitas Wahhabi.]
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Secular ritual"
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Wesser, Grit. "Kinship, state, and ritual : Jugendweihe : a secular coming-of-age ritual in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Germany." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25669.
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This thesis uses the secular coming-of-age ritual, Jugendweihe (‘youth consecration’), as a locus for exploring the ways kinship and politics in Germany are complexly intertwined. Although Jugendweihe emerged in the mid-19th century as a substitute for ecclesiastical coming-of-age rituals, and was adopted by various movements, it is closely associated with the former GDR (German Democratic Republic/East Germany). Under the GDR, young people aged thirteen to fourteen prepared for their Jugendweihe ceremony in ten ‘youth lessons’, which aimed to craft ‘socialist personalities’. Between 1955 and 1989 more than seven million adolescents pledged allegiance to the GDR state during the public ceremony, which was followed by a family celebration. With the demise of state socialism in 1989-90, western observers and the Churches assumed the ritual would vanish, but Jugendweihe continues to be celebrated in contemporary eastern Germany – without a pledge of allegiance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between November 2012 and January 2014 in Thuringia, this thesis investigates the changed social relations between individuals, families, and the state in eastern Germany after the political caesura of 1989-90. It explores the ritual’s abiding relevance within a different socio-political context, and considers how the ritual’s metamorphosis is mediated both through the local Jugendweihe Association and the grandparental and parental generations. The research examines what values grandparents and parents, who were socialised under the GDR, seek to transmit to their offspring born after the GDR state’s demise. It demonstrates the continued (and changing) salience of connections between kinship, ritual, and politics in contemporary Germany.
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Barbosa, Diego Santos. "Entre o religioso e o secular: o estudo dos símbolos e dos ritos na Festa do Divino Espírito Santo em Paraty - RJ." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2016. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1842.
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A festa do Divino Espírito Santo ocorre em várias regiões do Brasil, em cada região de ocorrência a festa tem suas particularidades. Em Paraty a festa é realizada desde o século XVIII, e contêm vários elementos distintos, como as bandeiras, as danças e shows com artistas da atualidade. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar, principalmente, os preparativos da festa, com o intuito de conhecer e reconhecer sua organização e importância, preocupando-se em entender o significado de ritos e símbolos envolvidos na cultura popular, especificadamente a Festa do Divino Espírito Santo em Paraty, cidade onde se encontra o recorte do presente estudo, localizada no Sul do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, sendo o município limite com o Estado de São Paulo. Neste sentido, apresentar uma reflexão sobre as dinâmicas e interações dos diversos atores sociais que participam do processo de construção social desta celebração em uma dada localidade, particularmente nos dez dias de festa, onde ocorrem: novenas, missas, entrega das lembrancinhas e uma grande procissão pelas ruas da cidade e também as festividades no espaço público, mas não somente neste período, pretendo participar da análise de todo processo da construção da festa desde a sua concepção e a escolha dos organizadores e colaboradores deste evento. Sendo assim, contribuir para a discussão acerca do debate sobre rito e símbolo religioso que se dará com a análise e as configurações que a festa do Divino Espírito Santo oferece ao espaço e à sociedade de Paraty, onde ela se realiza.
The Festival of the Holy Spirit occurs in various regions of Brazil, at each occurrence region the party has its peculiarities. In Paraty the party is held since the eighteenth century, and contains religious and secular elements, such as flags, dances and concerts with today's artists. This dissertation aims to analyze mainly the backstage party, in order to know and recognize its importance and organization, being concerned with understanding the meaning of rites and symbols involved in popular culture, specifically the Festival of the Holy Spirit in Paraty, city where the clipping of this study is found, located in the southern state of Rio de Janeiro, being the boundary city with the State of São Paulo. In this sense, present a reflection on the dynamics and interactions of the various social actors participating in the process of social construction of this celebration in a given locality, particularly in the ten-day festival, where occurs: novenas, masses, delivery of souvenirs and a large procession through the city streets and also the festivities in the public space, but not only in this period, I intend to participate in the analysis of the whole party construction process from its conception and the choice of the organizers and contributors to this event. There for et, contributing with the discussion about the debate on ritual and religious symbol that will come into being with the analysis and the settings that the Festival of the Holy Spirit offers to space and society of Paraty, where it takes place.
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McKim, Ross. "An investigation into the production and performance of danced pararituals as a numinous practice in the present secular period." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326607.
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Gallinat, Anselma. "Negotiating culture and belonging in Eastern Germany : the case of the Jugendweihe : a secular coming-of-age ritual." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1008/.
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Lönn, Mathilda. ""Det som är norm i vardagen är inte norm här" : Svenska konvent som sekulära ritualer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323637.
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The purpose of this thesis is to establish whether Swedish fan conventions organised around East-Asian popular culture such as anime and manga can be identified as a form of secular ritual. The methods used to determine this include participant observation, interviews and ethnographic data. Defining secular ritual as a performance event that establishes an alternative context that transforms the everyday without being connected to a religious or supernatural worldview or origin, we find that Swedish conventions of this kind may be called a form of ritual that engages people united by a common, broad field of interests and a notion of being outside of society’s norms in different ways, most notably in regards to sexuality and gender. This opens a discussion about Swedish fan conventions and how they may inform us about the use and function of rituals in a secularised society.
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Rosado-Bonilla, Mireilly Ann. "Everyday Performances in U.S. Household Kitchens." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804951/.
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BMA Innovation Consulting is committed to serving consumers products that can play a more meaningful role in household cleaning. So far, their innovation department has used psychology-based principles and approaches that have helped them understand consumers’ preferences, attitudes and claimed needs in household cleaning. That said, little information has been collected on the active role that products play or could play as participants in the everyday dynamics of US consumers. An anthropological approach to the study of U.S. kitchens, as an important center of family interaction in U.S. households, should yield important insights to the design and development of products that can more effectively and more actively participate in those dynamics. With this project I am fundamentally proposing a new approach to the identification of critical product design requirements. Figure on the right shows the key differences between the psychology-derived principles the organization is mostly using today vs. the anthropological lenses through which I will be conducting my research. Overall, I will be leveraging existing knowledge in the “individual desires” realm, connecting it to the collective situation & cultural context within which “cleaning action” emerges.
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Boris, Latinović. "Sport kao svetovna religija i ritualni obrazac ponašanja." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Asocijacija centara za interdisciplinarne i multidisciplinarne studije i istraživanja, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=99972&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Природа спорта као драме, условљена је улогом коју спорт има у друштву. Спортски спектакл је савремена паганистичка свечаност којом се владајућим односима и вриједностима даје судбинска димензија. Спорт је ритуално исказивање покорности духу који влада свијетом и у том смислу највиша религиозна церемонија која има литургијски карактер.Спорт и рeлигиja нa први пoглeд дjeлуjу кao двиje пoтпунo нeпoвeзивe ствaри, a кoликo су зaпрaвo слични дoкaзуjу сaкрaлни oбjeкти нa многобројним излoжбама, кojе пaрaлeлнo прикaзуjу вjeрскe икoнe и култнe прeдмeтe из свијета спорта.Priroda sporta kao drame, uslovljena je ulogom koju sport ima u društvu. Sportski spektakl je savremena paganistička svečanost kojom se vladajućim odnosima i vrijednostima daje sudbinska dimenzija. Sport je ritualno iskazivanje pokornosti duhu koji vlada svijetom i u tom smislu najviša religiozna ceremonija koja ima liturgijski karakter.Sport i religija na prvi pogled djeluju kao dvije potpuno nepovezive stvari, a koliko su zapravo slični dokazuju sakralni objekti na mnogobrojnim izložbama, koje paralelno prikazuju vjerske ikone i kultne predmete iz svijeta sporta.
The nature of the sport as drama, is conditioned by the role that sport plays in society. Sporting spectacle contemporary pagan ceremony laying the governing relations and values gives fatal dimensions. Sport is a ritual expression of obedience to the spirit that rules the world and in this sense, the highest religious ceremony that has a liturgical character.Sport and religion at first sight look like two totally unrelated things, and how they actually prove similar religious buildings in many exhibitions that also depict religious icons and cult objects from the world of sport.
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Medeiros, Ana Gabriela Alves. "Valores em jogo : cerimônias esportivas como rituais seculares de emulação de valores." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6117.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-28A proposta deste estudo é elaborar uma análise que envolve a emulação de valores a partir de rituais em um contexto específico: o esportivo. Para isto, partimos da compreensão de que as cerimônias esportivas possuem uma dimensão ritualística que se constitui como um palco privilegiado para a celebração de valores (MORÁGAS, MacALOON e LLINÉS, 1995). Os Jogos Olímpicos como referência central de competição é evidente na esfera esportiva, de forma que a quantidade de olimpíadas se expande, abrangendo competições poliesportivas desde níveis comunitários até mundiais. Torna-se perceptível que, direta ou indiretamente, estas competições baseiam-se no modelo cerimonial olímpico. Baseando-se nesse pressuposto, buscamos identificar e analisar os valores que orientam diferentes jogos escolares bem como os sentidos e significados atribuídos às cerimônias de abertura e ao esporte por alunos-atletas e organizadores de quatro jogos escolares (selecionados intencionalmente). Para tanto, combinamos os dados advindos da observação direta das cerimônias, das entrevistas guiadas realizadas com alunos-atletas e organizadores, bem como da aplicação de questionários. Seguindo às hipóteses do estudo, percebeu-se que os jogos e olimpíadas escolares analisados emularam as cerimônias olímpicas e seus valores ao mesmo tempo em que promoveram sua identidade e valores específicos. Entretanto, constatou-se a partir das falas dos organizadores que as especificidades valorativas dos seus eventos não são claramente distinguíveis em relação aos Jogos Olímpicos e/ou aos valores associados ao esporte como um todo. Verificou-se também que à medida que os jogos escolares apresentam características mais locais (com menor dimensão e população), a forma das cerimônias parece configurar-se de maneira mais flexível, sobretudo, no que se refere a como e em que ordem os elementos protocolares são dispostos ao longo da cerimônia. No que se refere às representações valorativas dos elementos e símbolos olímpicos, percebe-se que o caráter ritual da cerimônia esportiva é objetivamente pouco compreendido em termos de significados pelos entrevistados, mas, temos subsídios para pensar que a cerimônia parece manter sua eficácia social situada na produção das crenças
The current study is aimed to elaborate an analysis on the emulation of values through rituals in a specific context: sports. To this end, we start from the comprehension that sport ceremonies such as the Olympic ceremonials embrace a ritualistic dimension which figures as a privileged stage to celebrate values (MORÁGAS, MacALOON and LLINÉS; 1995). The Olympic Games as central reference to other competitions is evident in the sport field in such a way that the quantity of olympics is increasing embracing sport competitions from the community level until the world context. It is noticeable that these competitions, directly or indirectly, are based on the Olympic model (as they have a symbolic flame , parade of delegations, oaths, hymns, among other elements). Based on this hypothesis, we tried to identify and analyze the values which orient different school games as well as the meanings and senses attributed to the opening ceremonies and sport by students-athletes and organizers who took part on four different school games. To do so, we combined the data that came from direct observation of the ceremonies, guided interviews with athletes and organizers, as well as questionnaires. Based on the previous hypothesis, it was noticeable that these school Olympics emulated the Olympic ceremony and its values and at the same time the promoted their own identity and specific values. However, through the organizer s speeches, the specific values of the events they promoted were difficult to distinguish from the Olympics and/or the values associated to sports in general. It was also perceptible that as more local the school games were (with smaller size and population), the shape of the ceremonies were featured in a more flexible way, specially, in regards to how and in which order the protocol elements were presented during the ceremony. In regards to the valuing representations of Olympic elements and symbols, it is clear that the ritual aspect of the sport ceremonies are objectively slightly comprehended on their meanings, but, we are subsidized to argue that the ceremony seems to keep its social efficacy in the production of beliefs
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MEDEIROS, A. G. A. "VALORES EM JOGO: CERIMÔNIAS ESPORTIVAS COMO RITUAIS SECULARES DE EMULAÇÃO DE VALORES." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/7216.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-28A proposta deste estudo é elaborar uma análise que envolve a emulação de valores a partir de rituais em um contexto específico: o esportivo. Para isto, partimos da compreensão de que as cerimônias esportivas possuem uma dimensão ritualística que se constitui como um palco privilegiado para a celebração de valores (MORÁGAS, MacALOON e LLINÉS, 1995). Os Jogos Olímpicos como referência central de competição é evidente na esfera esportiva, de forma que a quantidade de olimpíadas se expande, abrangendo competições poliesportivas desde níveis comunitários até mundiais. Torna-se perceptível que, direta ou indiretamente, estas competições baseiam-se no modelo cerimonial olímpico. Baseando-se nesse pressuposto, buscamos identificar e analisar os valores que orientam diferentes jogos escolares bem como os sentidos e significados atribuídos às cerimônias de abertura e ao esporte por alunos-atletas e organizadores de quatro jogos escolares (selecionados intencionalmente). Para tanto, combinamos os dados advindos da observação direta das cerimônias, das entrevistas guiadas realizadas com alunos-atletas e organizadores, bem como da aplicação de questionários. Seguindo às hipóteses do estudo, percebeu-se que os jogos e olimpíadas escolares analisados emularam as cerimônias olímpicas e seus valores ao mesmo tempo em que promoveram sua identidade e valores específicos. Entretanto, constatou-se a partir das falas dos organizadores que as especificidades valorativas dos seus eventos não são claramente distinguíveis em relação aos Jogos Olímpicos e/ou aos valores associados ao esporte como um todo. Verificou-se também que à medida que os jogos escolares apresentam características mais locais (com menor dimensão e população), a forma das cerimônias parece configurar-se de maneira mais flexível, sobretudo, no que se refere a como e em que ordem os elementos protocolares são dispostos ao longo da cerimônia. No que se refere às representações valorativas dos elementos e símbolos olímpicos, percebe-se que o caráter ritual da cerimônia esportiva é objetivamente pouco compreendido em termos de significados pelos entrevistados, mas, temos subsídios para pensar que a cerimônia parece manter sua eficácia social situada na produção das crenças.
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Freitas, Anamaria Gonçalves Bueno de. "Educação, trabalho e ação politica : sergipanas no inicio do seculo XX." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFS, 2003. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/1075.
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Este texto analisa o processo de educação feminina, em Sergipe, nas primeiras décadas do século XX, a partir de uma abordagem histórico-sociológica. Trata das trajetórias de escolarização e inserção no mercado de trabalho de três sergipanas, Quintina Diniz de Oliveira Ribeiro (1878-1942), Itala Silva de Oliveira (1897-1984) e Maria Rita Soares de Andrade (1904-1998), evidenciam táticas e estratégias em busca da emancipação feminina e de ocupação, de espaços considerados masculinos, de forma pioneira. Trabalhou-se com as seguintes fontes: relatórios e mensagens oficiais, atas de instituições escolares e de associações intelectuais e educativas, atas da Assembléia Legislativa, a grande imprensa e a imprensa cultural-literária e feminina, teses de concurso e de conclusão de curso, crônicas, cartas e depoimentos orais, entre outros. A visibilidade do engajamento profissional e político dessas três mulheres, nos espaços públicos dentro e fora de Sergipe, contribuíram para a produção de diferentes significados sobre as mulheres escolarizadas. A configuração do campo educacional, na passagem do século XIX para o século XX, possibilitou não somente a diversidade na criação de instituições como também a construção de projetos de escolarização para meninas e jovens sergipanas de diferentes classes sociais. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: This text analysis the process of female education in Sergipe in the first decades ofthe XX ftom a historical-sociological approach. It deals with the schooling and insertion in the job market of three women from Sergipe, Quintina Diniz de Oliveira Ribeiro (1878- 1942), Itala da Silva Oliveira (1897-1984) and Maria Rita Soares de Andrade (1904-1998), evidence tatics and strategies seeking the female and the occupation of spaces regarded as male ones of pioneer shape. The following sources were dealt with: official reports and messages, minutes of schooling institutions and of intelectual and educational associations, minutes of legislative assembly, the press as a whole and the culturalliterary female press, contests thesis, graduation thesis, chronicles, letters and oral reports, and so on. The visibility of the professional and political commitment of these three women, in public spaces within and outside Sergipe, they have contributed to the production of different meanings about schooled women . The configuration of the educational field, in the passage of the XIX to the XX, not only enabled the diversity in the creation of the institutions as well as the construction of projects of schooling for girls and young people of different social classes.
Books on the topic "Secular ritual"
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Catholic Church. Ritual of the Secular Franciscan Order. Edited by Fonck Benet A and International Franciscan Liturgical Commission. [Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Pr., 1985.
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Daryl, Parks, ed. Designing rituals of adoption forthe religious and secular community. Minneapolis, Minn: Resources for Adoptive Parents, 1995.
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Mason, Mary Martin. Designing rituals of adoption for the religious and secular community. Minneapolis, Minn: Resources for Adoptive Parents, 1995.
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Seid, Judith. We rejoice in our heritage: Home rituals for secular and humanistic Jews. Ann Arbor, Mich: Kopinvant Secular Press, 1989.
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Ribeiro, José. Mágico mundo dos orixás: Rituais de raiz, mitologia dos totens e tabus, tradição lendária através dos seculos, sincretismo no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Pallas, 1988.
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Gordon-Lennox, Jeltje, and Isabel Russo. Crafting Secular Ritual. Kingsley Publishers, Jessica, 2016.
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Bent, Holm, Nielsen Bent Flemming, and Vedel Karen, eds. Religion, Ritual, Theatre. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009.
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Law of Possession: Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016.
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Law of Possession: Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016.
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Llopis-Goig, Ramón. "Spaniards’ Secular Ritual." In Spanish Football and Social Change, 8–26. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137467959_2.
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Weber, Urs. "Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective." In Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation, 257–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65067-4_11.
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AbstractThis chapter examines how Taiwan’s written media justified the state’s introduction of funeral reforms in the second half of the twentieth century. Situating this case study within the broader sociopolitical context of contemporary Taiwan, it illustrates how discourse analysis can be used as a tool for studying change. The state-led reforms induced changes in a field in which religious rituals play an important role, as state authorities operated with priorities differing from ritual practice. Instead, they were concerned with measures for land saving and popularized practices such as cremation or natural burials. The discourse analysis reveals that the justifications brought forward for reforms appeared with a high degree of consistency starting from the late 1970s in Taiwanese press articles. Following Michel Foucault’s understanding of discursive formations, four sub-formations can be distinguished, which all have in common that they are aimed at problematizing ritual practices prevalent at funerals. These sub-formations consisted of considerations concerning the quantitative limits of available cemetery land for graves, arguments referring to the economic advantages of cremation, articulations of the ideal of green cemeteries designed in a park-like fashion, and a critique of geomancy in labeling it superstitious. The discursive voices emerging in the sub-formations were state and local authorities, as well as experts and journalists commenting on reform measures. These priorities and justifications for reforms appeared to be incompatible with religious funeral rituals and are analyzed as changes in terms of a secularization process of Taiwan’s funerary practice. An important finding is that the secular reform measures were, to a large extent, inspired by similar reforms in other regions in the world, and are as such part of a global pattern.
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Grotti, Vanessa, and Marc Brightman. "Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialization of Migrant Human Remains in Italy." In Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean, 69–104. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56585-5_4.
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AbstractIn this chapter we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long-term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different scales of significance. The rising number of migrant deaths related to international crossings worldwide, especially in the Mediterranean, has stimulated a large body of scholarship, which generally relies upon a hermeneutics of secular transitional justice and fraternal transnationalism. We explore an alternative approach by focusing on the material and ritual afterlife of unidentified human remains at sea, examining the effects they have on their hosting environment. The treatment of dead strangers (across the double threshold constituted by the passage from life to death on the one hand and the rupture of exile on the other) raises new questions for the anthropology of death. We offer an interpretation of both ad hoc and organized recovery operations and mortuary practices, including forensic identification procedures, and collective and single burials of dead migrants, as acts of hospitality. Hosting the dead operates at different scales: it takes the politically charged form of memorialization at the levels of the state and the local community; however, while remembrance practices for dead strangers emphasize the latter’s status as a collective category, forensic technologies of remembrance are directed toward the reconstruction of (in)dividual personhood. These ritual and technological processes of memorialization and re-attachment together awaken ghosts of Italian fascism and colonialism.
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Sered, Susan Starr. "Religious Rituals and Secular Rituals: Interpenetrating Models of Childbirth in a Modern, Israeli Context*." In Gender and Religion, 113–26. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429337345-10.
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"Ritual: Religious and Secular." In Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, 161–205. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047410775_009.
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"The ritual mask of oriental despotism: Wonder and superimposition in Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes (1721) and De l’Esprit des Lois (1748)." In Secular Assemblages. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350123700.ch-005.
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Cheetham, David. "The Shared Making of Signs." In Creation and Religious Pluralism, 133–52. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856665.003.0008.
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In this chapter we take this discussion in Chapter 6 further by focusing on the shared creation of powerful gestures, ceremonies, and rituals in the ‘immanent frame’. Embodied individuals and communities find ritual or liturgy to be a connection between the material and finite with the transcendent. Is the secular space capable of being ritualized? The chapter will focus mainly on the idea of rituality occurring in an immanent frame or habitus (Pierre Bourdieu). It will engage with a range of sources and argue that there is a broad liturgical potential opened up by an anthropology rooted in ritual. As well as the focus on the doctrine of creation, the chapter explores the phenomenology of ritual in the secular space and asks if it might constitute a positive step towards the joint creation of meaning and practice in the public sphere.
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Quijada, Justine Buck. "Epilogue." In Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets, 188–92. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916794.003.0008.
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The epilogue re-caps the arguments presented in the previous chapters, and revisits Bakhtin’s idea of the chronotope as an analytic terminology for an anthropology of history. The epilogue argues that a comparative approach to indigenous revitalization projects in post-Soviet secular Buryatia reveals the contingent and creative nature of human conceptions of time and space, and the productive capacity of ritual. The chronotopes indexed in rituals exist as negotiated, contingent, performative evocations of pasts that continuously produce Buryats as subjects in the present. The epilogue also reminds readers that all the previous chapters are linked by the way in which contemporary Buryats emphasize materiality as proof for belief, and argues that this is a secular conception that undergirds contemporary Siberian religious practices. The materiality of ritual appears to participants to exceed its explanations, grounding revived post-Soviet religious practice in a secular discourse of evidentiary proof.
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Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland. "Heaven, Ghosts and Spirits, and Ritual." In Zhu Xi, 116–37. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190861254.003.0007.
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This chapter concerns Zhu Xi’s views of Heaven, ghosts, spirits, and rituals. He tended to identify Heaven with pattern-principle, thereby contributing to its gradual transformation into a more secular philosophical concept. But Zhu’s conception of Heaven was more complex and nuanced; although Heaven was not a person, it possessed consciousness that was faithful to pattern-principles. Similarly, many of Zhu’s claims about ghosts and spirits reduce both to different modes or phases of qi in the functioning of all things. Nevertheless, he taught that sincere offerings of food and wine refreshed the vitality of an ancestor’s qi, and thus he offers a philosophical justification for rites to venerate the dead. In addition, he believed that hungry ghosts arose when a person’s qi was strong or enraged by violent death. Zhu followed and further developed Cheng Yi’s idea that ritual is synonymous with pattern-principle. Nevertheless, he refused to reduce ritual to pattern-principle.
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Middleton, Deborah. "'Secular sacredness' in the ritual theatre of Nicolás Núñez." In Anthropocosmic Theatre, 189–213. University of Huddersfield Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5920/anthropocosmic.08.
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Aktasih, Mila, and Juju Masunah. "Changes in the Function of Gendong Dance, Indonesia (Rituals To Seculars)." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts and Design Education (ICADE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icade-18.2019.40.
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