Ritual without belief? Kierkegaard against Rappaport on personal belief and ritual action, with particular reference to Jonathan Lear’s ‘A Case for Irony’
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DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2018.1423634
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper presents a Kierkegaardian critique of Roy A. Rappaport’s classic treatment of religious rituals. It discusses Rappaport’s claim that public and outward acceptance of a religious ritual is sufficient for successfully enacting it… read more here.
Keywords: kierkegaard; belief; rappaport personal; jonathan lear ... See more keywords
Ritual action, context and comparison
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DOI: 10.1086/711712
Abstract: I have always been convinced that an anthropologist should be able to read and understand the works of any other colleague, independently of the part of the world in which he or she has specialized… read more here.
Keywords: anthropology; context comparison; action context; reason ... See more keywords