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Literacy Rituals in the Community and the Classroom
Language Arts, 2017This article examines literacy rituals as a form of culturally relevant pedagogy and argues that ritual reading practice may offer some students a culturally resonant engagement with school that draws on community relationships.
R. LeBlanc
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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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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 ...openaire +1 more source
Ritual und rituelles Wissen (Rituals and Ritual Knowledge)
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016German 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, 2009AbstractWhat 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
2018In 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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1992
Abstract Durkheim’s theory of solidarity presupposes that a ‘collective conscience’, or a system of shared values and beliefs, is a necessary condition of order. Most of his work is concerned with those institutions which he considered vital for the production of solidarity: religion, law, education, and the division of labour.
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Abstract Durkheim’s theory of solidarity presupposes that a ‘collective conscience’, or a system of shared values and beliefs, is a necessary condition of order. Most of his work is concerned with those institutions which he considered vital for the production of solidarity: religion, law, education, and the division of labour.
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Teaching Healing Rituals/Ritual Healing
2007AbstractThis chapter deals with one of the earliest and most ubiquitous forms of ritual activity in the human record: seeking the aid of a greater power in a quest for healing. Because of the enormity of the topic and the importance of keeping their students' experiences in mind, the authors developed a cross-cultural typology as an tool for organizing
Susan S. Sered, Linda L. Barnes
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Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life
, 1984William I. Gorden
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