RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Power (Social And Political), Neurosis, No Symbol
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Chapter 6: being religious is not simply a matter of holding certain ideas in the head it also involves doing things, religion is done through rituals, or ritual actions. Ritual and ritualising: catherine bell argues that the term "ritual" is misleading. Ritual generally refers to human experience and perception in forms which are o complicated by the imagination, making reality more complex and unnatural than more mundane instrumental spheres of human experience assume": catherine bell. The performance of more or less invariant sequences of formal acts and o utterances not entirely encoded by the performers": roy rappaport, victor turner. Automatic-ness of ritual action which encourages us to call it ritual: ex. Saying hi to a friend in the street: some rituals may be performed solemnly, ex. These are: (a) meaning; (b) symbolism; (c) communication; (d) performance; (e) society; (f) repetition; (g) transformation; and (h) power.
