Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Secular ritual'

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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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.

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.

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.

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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A 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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A 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.

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.

This dissertation deals with ritual and its connection to music. The objective of the research and the studies of selected rituals is to describe the relations between ritual and the music- dance elements within it. The dissertation focuses on musical expression. In the dissertation we describe a few traditional rituals from the European cultural heritage, and also some selected examples of secular ceremonies in relation to them. Sources of information include field research, studies of authentic ritual (filmed by Lubomír Tyllner), as well as specialist literature. The concept of "ritual" means, for us, a performance, a symbolic activity, the aim of which is to create and to consolidate social bonds, and to regulate, conserve and transmit social habits and manners. It prescribes behavior which should help an individual to win favour with supernatural powers, or which could have a positive effect on achieving an intended goal. The important part of the ritual is the concept of "liminality", and in addition "The communitas" status of the community. Victor Turner, who studied these aspects of ritual in detail, distinguished the term "ritual" from "secular ceremony" by the existence of liminality. In ritual and secular ceremony music performs many functions, and seems to be a very essential part of...

Ce mémoire de maîtrise vise à contribuer aux études rituelles et à l’anthropologie du sécularisme. Sur la base d’une recherche ethnographique menée au Québec, nous étudions la pratique des officiants de rites de passage séculiers qui opèrent en dehors de la religion organisée. Il s’agit de comprendre comment ceux-ci renouvèlent les rites de passage en dehors d’un appui ou d’une régulation institutionnels. Nous traitons des cérémonies de naissance et de mariage et cherchons spécifiquement à étudier comment ces célébrants, tels qu’ils se décrivent, recourent à l’innovation et à la créativité rituelle pour offrir des rites porteurs de sens dans un contexte social marqué par une hétérogénéité de sensibilités religieuses. En effet, les célébrants séculiers s’adressent à des individus distanciés de la religion instituée et doivent donc satisfaire leurs valeurs, croyances et visions du monde ainsi que celles des membres de leur entourage encore proches de la tradition catholique. Les résultats de cette recherche qualitative se basent sur un échantillon de dix célébrants séculiers établis au Québec et présentant une diversité d’approches et de contextes de pratique. La collecte de données est basée sur des entretiens semi-dirigés ainsi que des observations effectuées auprès d’eux. Cette étude montre que les célébrants les plus créatifs sont motivés par la dimension sociale et spirituelle de la célébration plutôt que par des motifs économiques. Même s’ils opèrent en atomes libres, ils s’inscrivent dans un nouveau paradigme rituel plus large observé par Catherine Bell (2009). Celui-ci est axé sur les éléments suivant : une conception du rite qui dépasse la frontière du religieux et devient un moyen universel d’épanouissement du soi et du collectif ; un rite de passage qui est conçu comme un processus transformationnel et réflexif pour les principaux participants; une fonction sociale du rite qui se manifeste dans la consolidation du relationnel et un registre d’authenticité alors que les croyances religieuses deviennent secondaires ; une autorité du célébrant qui diminue en faveur de celle des participants ; une dimension expérientielle et participative du rite qui est fortement investie.
This master thesis aims at making a contribution to ritual studies and the anthropology of secularism. The ethnographic research I present is based in Quebec and centers on new specialists of secular rites of passage, who are ritual makers that practice outside of organized religion. My central objective is to understand how these self-described celebrants creatively contribute to the practice of rites of passage, without relying purely on institutional support or regulation. The focus of this thesis is on birth and wedding ceremonies. I present how these celebrants use ritual innovation and creativity to offer meaningful rites in a social context marked by diversity with respect to different religious sensitivities. Indeed, secular celebrants direct their services toward people who are distanced from institutionalized religion and therefore must satisfy their values, beliefs and worldviews, in addition to elder members of the community that may still adhere to catholic traditions. The results of this qualitative research are based on a sample of ten secular celebrants operating in Quebec and displaying a variety of approaches to ritual making. The primary mode of data gathering is through semi-directed interviews and observational interactions with ritual practitioners. This study demonstrates that the social and spiritual dimensions of the wedding and birth celebrations drive the ritual celebrants, rather than purely economical motivations. Even though ritual makers may develop their practice independently from one another, the most innovative celebrants share traits and participate in a larger emerging ritual paradigm observed by Catherine Bell (2009). This paradigm is characterized by a vision where rites of passage are considered a universal means for the empowerment of the self and the community; rites of passage become a transformational as well as reflexive process for the core ritual participants; the social function of ritual is emphasized toward an ideal of authenticity whereas religious beliefs take a secondary importance; the ritual leader loses authority in favour of the participants; the experiential and participatory component of ritual are strongly invested.

The purpose of this study is to investigate ritual in order to establish an intimacy between architecture and its users. The lithurgy of the Roman Catholic Church is used as a point of departure, but the study is especially concerned with personal secular ritual. The intervention will function as an urban retreat. It consists of a series of contemplative spaces that facilitate a spiritual journey. The Retreat is based on ideas surrounding the traditional Roman Catholic Convent, which informed the accommodation schedule to a great extend. The study recognizes the new approach of the Roman Catholic Religion, which entails a holistic ministry that plays an increasingly critical and social role. The Retreat will therefore function as a base for religious and social organizations to work from in the inner-city of Pretoria. The retreat will also offer limited social facilities such as counselling and seminar rooms. The site is situated in the inner-city of Pretoria, in the block directly north-east of Church Square. The site consists of two properties: the northern consists of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), with the southern being a pan-handle erf that functions as a service courtyard for commercial ventures on Church Street. The Noordvaal thoroughfare runs parallel to the site on its western edge, linking Church and Vermeulen Streets. The site exists unnoticed by pedestrians using the arcade, because of a boundary wall. Of further importance is the 2,8 m slope of the site from south to north over a distance of 140 m. The project directly addresses urban issues as well as spatial and emotional ones. The intervention is seen as part of a process of architectural proliferation. It takes the existing fabric and current conditions and rather than replacing them, creates a synthesis of elements so as to evolve a new urban condition; i.e. how to grow a piece of city rather than how you build it. Design decisions were influenced by Pallasmaa's ideas on fragile architecture: it is concerned with real sensory interaction instead of conceptual manifestations. Problems and opportunities are identified on a small scale and the response is focussed on these: it is an architecture that grows and opens up.
Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2005.
Architecture
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The thesis in its first part describes the evolution of rituals in general from the anthropological point of view. The focal topic of the thesis is an attempt to explain the reasons for arising of other non-Christian rituals in the course of history, with special emphasis on rituals of the 2nd half of the 20th century in Czechoslovakia, mainly of the period of the totalitarian regime. The thesis aims to ask about legitimacy of substituting Christian rituals, whether they have been just mere substitution or whether we can regard them as complementary or paralel rituals. Last but not least the thesis inquires into specificity and irreplaceability of Christian rituals. Keywords Secular Rituals, Religious Rituals, Liturgy, Christianity, Comunism.

This dissertation comprises a theoretical exploration and its application to a case study design. It identities with the seldom-overlooked approach to urban design based on a dose examination of existing context This enables design interventions that are place specific and capable of interpretation by the people who use them. The investigation of the morphology of the use and its patterns of use in light of the society’s ritualised use of space are believed to be essential in informing urban design for an African context With this in mind, therefore, the design process must entail not only accommodating the urban dynamics but also understanding the broad context that examines the actual living conditions based on cultural and traditional imperatives valued as enrichments of the process.Cognizance of patterns of individual and public rituals, for instance, is highly valued to assist in dealing with the problems of permanence and change. As opposed to contemporary urban planning and design practice in Africa, which is often based on blind application of Western experience (Uytenbogaardt and Dewar 1991), the approach in this discourse contends that for developing cities to function efficiently, urban design must address both the ritual and functional needs of the society in question. It is not good enough to make rhetorical statements about the importance of a culture-sensitive approach to urban design in an (economically) “developing” society unless one genuinely tries to understand its seemingly hidden inner workings. The theoretical discussion particularly explores the spatial significance of urban ritualism and collective behavior as a conceptual prerequisite. A conceptual framework then identifies principles that have applicability for analysis and design. The central area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is selected as the site of the case study where adopted and derived design principles are tested and evaluated in light of suitability and, possibly, their wider application.