RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gennep, Liminality, Sigmund Freud
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Religion is done through rituals, or ritual actions. Something may be ritual but not necessarily religious. Some say the study of religion may be better framed as the study of ritual. Helpful to describe the practice of religion. Ritual" is used to describe very varied types of behaviour, helping us try to understand things (activities) that other people are doing. Better to say ritual behaviour than just ritual. When we look at ritual actions, we focus less on the rituals" in themselves (as pre-given actions with a life 130 ritual. Ritualizing transpires as animated persons enact formative gestures in the face of receptivity during crucial times in founded places". Generally refers to human experience and perception in forms which are complicated by the imagination, making reality more complex and unnatural than more mundane instrumental spheres of human experience assume. The performance of more or less invariant sequences of formal acts and utterances not entirely encoded by the performers.
