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Family Rituals

Family Process, 1984
Family rituals, consisting of celebrations, traditions, and patterned family interactions, are defined and illustrated in this paper. The power of ritual practice in families is explained by three underlying processes — transformation, communication, and stabilization — concepts whose roots lie in anthropology and ethology. We propose that all families
S J, Wolin, L A, Bennett
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Ritualizing Ritual's Rituals

Art Journal, 1992
With a gesture of an eagle feather, Elijah Harper, an Ojibway-Cree and a New Democrat member of the Manitoba legislature, indicated his “No” to the constitutional changes proposed in the Meech Lake Accord, on the grounds that First Nations had been excluded.1 During the much-publicized confrontation at Oka between Mohawk warriors and the Securite de ...
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Rituals and Ritual Theory

2020
Abstract It is customary to view rituals as a dominant feature in the practice of religions. Thus, scholars generally discuss rituals in terms of a theological setting and focus on meaning, reason, and purpose. However, this chapter proposes a wider context from which to view ritual that takes into account the behavioral factors that are
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Ritual, Rituals, and Ritualizing in American Buddhism

Abstract Popular religious discourse in America both valorizes meditation as good and ritual as bad, and dichotomizes the two as distinct and separate. Historically rooted in the conflicts of the Reformation, these paired oppositions perpetuate a Cartesian-style dualism of mind and body, a privileging of thought over action, and an ...
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Ritual und rituelles Wissen (Rituals and Ritual Knowledge)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
German Abstract Rituale sind fur die Konstitution, Aufrechterhaltung und Veranderung von Gemeinschaften wichtig. Sie verbinden Vergangenes mit Gegenwartigem und Zukunftigem. In Gemeinschaften und Gesellschaften schaffen sie Strukturen. Sie inkorporieren die in gesellschaftliche Institutionen enthaltene Werte und Handlungsweisen in die Menschen, die in ...
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Ritual Individuation and Ritual Change

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2009
AbstractWhat makes a ritual performance an instance of one ritual and not another? When we observe unfamiliar rituals, how do we know where one ends and the next begins? Is there a principled way of distinguishing mere preparations from the ritual proper? Can rituals change, and how do we know if they have changed?
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Ritualization and Ritual Invention

2018
In the lexicon of ritual theory, the notion of ritualization bears a heavy load. The concept aims to account for both the origins and functions of ritual (at both the biological and cultural levels), as well as inform reflection on the meaning and merit of ritual and even ritual theory.
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