New Rituals--Old Societies

Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel

von Nissan Rubin

208 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises.There are crises which beset individuals in modern andpost-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditionalrituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporarysociety, but have merely changed their guise.Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, thiscollection examines rituals which were invented by communitiesand individuals in order to celebrate important turning points.In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals wasintroduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outsidesources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols throughthe infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology.The term "personal definitional rites" coined here was introducedas a tool to interpret rites carried out by individuals undergoing achange in identity.

• ISBN: 9781934843352
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2009
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press