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Seligman, Adam B.
Professor of Religion and Research Associate, CURA, BU, USA
Weller, Robert P.
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Reseach Associate, Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, BU, USA
Puett, Michael
Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University, USA
Simon, Bennett
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-533600-9 |
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doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336009.003.0001
Abstract: This introductory chapter situates the analysis within existing anthropological studies of ritual, and argues that ritual is not solely an aspect of religious life. Rather, it presents ritual as a crucial mode for framing human activity. It contrasts this with another mode of living and acting in the world, which the authors of this book call sincerity. It suggests that contemporary thought, which rests on the idea of autonomous individuals interacting on the basis of their sincerity, has left little ideological room for ritual and its creation of bounded groups. Yet ritual has not disappeared and in fact appears to be increasing. This sets the stage for the book's general reconsideration of how ritual works.
Keywords: ritual, anthropological studies, sincerity, autonomous individuals, framing, 
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