Article: The rite stuff.(Interaction Ritual Chains)(Book Review)

Article: Interaction Ritual Chains.(Book Review)
Social Forces;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... situations. Interaction Ritual Chains is both a serious ... that interaction rituals produce emotional ... group. Yet, if ritual depends upon group ... history from which rituals derive and which ... organization. Interaction ritual chains are constitutive ...

Article: Ritual
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion;      700+ words ... ... single ritual act, ritual a series of rites ... subclass of religious rituals. Liturgy normally ... designate a class of rituals with a connotation ... violation of norms. Ritual is normally understood ... and significance of rituals of transition and ... effervescence of ritual and its ...

Article: Rituals in relationships.(Life in America)
USA Today (Magazine);  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... humans will create ritual behaviors. Sometimes rituals are large: the multihousehold ... life. What makes a ritual? Rituals are predictable sets ... know their roles in the rituals, although these may evolve. The ritual is important as an individual ...

Article: Rituals
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...Rituals A ritual is a patterned, repetitive ... cultural belief or value. Rituals usually work to enhance ... something else emerges. Rituals are not arbitrary; they ... symbolic message that a given ritual sends manifests an underlying ...

Article: Ritual in Its Own Right.(Book review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... performance studies, rituals have all too often ... external to the ritual itself. The usefulness ... can encompass all rituals, Handelman treats 'ritual' as 'a class ... as an 'intimate ritual' practised outside ... soul-retrieval rituals practised in neo ...

Article: RITUAL: PERSPECTIVES AND DIMENSIONS.(Review)
Theological Studies;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... societies or historical periods have more ritual than others? Why do ritual practices change? Do rituals mediate changes in social and cultural groups? How has modern culture changed ritual behavior? Finally, she explores the origin ...

Article: Rituals' vital role in getting past the routine
The Boston Globe;  December 21, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... band, trying to provide all the ritual herself. "Women are customarily the ritual makers and keepers," says Imber ... equality in the celebration of our rituals. We need to get away from equating ritual with mother in the kitchen and father ...