Ritual
Ritual is a culturally bound human action, which by structured means the transformation of an area of life in, over which everyday life causes outside handing, connections.
Rituals are a menschheitliches phenomenon. They make the human with one another for the existence possible by handling basic questions. In addition count Security, just like those Number of deaths. They are able to make the world simpler and more manageable and facilitate decisions. Sometimes their effects operate themselves in addition, in negatives, then sets Ritual criticism .
Rituals serve particularly that social operational sequence (see Karl books: Work and ). Thus it gives
- Cyclic rituals, those the dailytemporal, weekly, monthly or annual follow, (z.B. that Sun turning celebration);
- Life-cyclic rituals, z.B. (with birth, man bar etc..).
- event-referred rituals, the z.B. with certain crises apply (z.B. that
refers to behavior, feelings, values and moral conceptions of the society. This can be achieved on different ways: Transition rites refer to the role role of a person or a group in the social or territorial range. - The ritual as social intensification
stresses the identity of one Group, it befriedet it. It is repeatable like those Coming union or that Greeting. Likewise that stabilizes the with one another. Rebellion rituals offer through ritualisierte social reversal a "valve custom" (Richard Thurnwald) and stabilize thus the existing society (see those Saturnalien, that Karneval). seen rituals are suitable to unite contradictory for which it is typical that the participants can to follow and want it well-informed, although them therein the integrated social conflicts in detail at all to reconstruct do not have; that well-informed field researcher (about that Ethnologen) however the signals are differently than ritually not recognizable to agreeing upon - z. B. lean (as in experience (religious) Arousing movements, which offer a better life by means of solution rituals. - Rite, Passage rite
- Ritual magic, Ritualitaet
- Institution, Custom, Customs, Ceremony, Umgangsformen
- Religion sociology
- M. Douglas: Ritual, taboo and body symbolism. Sozialanthropologi Studies in industrial company and master culture. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt A.M. 1981.
- Damon Rigor, Athara Nokei, Paths into the other worlds, ISBN 3-89094-390-X
- Daniel B. Lee: "ritual and the Social Meaning and Meaninglessness OF religion", in: Social world, 2005 (LVI), H. 1. S. 5-16
- Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual and religion into the Making OF Humanity. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge: University press
Religious rituals
Rituals are frequently in the range that embodies. (see Rite) rituals promote the co-operation of religious groups. Thus the evaluation of data over 83 US-American religious communities resulted in 19 from that. Century that religious communities the more rituals are the more long-lived, Erschraenkungen and requirements in it are practiced. For lay communities such a connection cannot be determined. (source: Brain & spirit NR. 1-2/2005)
In single sciences
The term "ritual" is as more scientifically also in that Ethnologie and .
But, like it opened, rituals in all societies are the sociology. They are a constant Change subjected. They renew themselves and step in changed shape into the changed social reality. Thus certain rituals step both in the ranges , remarkable reviving from rituals is to be registered to.
To the Psychotherapie and Paedagogik
Within the range of therapy plays Ritualisierung an important role. Orders are to be restored, where they are present no more than social structure. The structure and meaning giving strength of rituals for the social connection in groups are to be made usable also in the therapeutic area. In symbolic way the core of the total problem is worked out. In the mode of the play therapy the family roles involved are set up; Changes are supported by a symbolic action (z.B. with a gesture of reconciliation).
Also in that Schulpaedagogik and in particular in that Primary school increasingly rituals are introduced consciously for the structuring by instruction and for the creation of an alive school life.
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