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Title: Ritual


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Ritual
  • The Sacred Quest, chap. 5

2
Where do you see ritual today?
  • Non-religious examples
  • Sports players, fans
  • Patriotism
  • Other?
  • Religious examples
  • Wat
  • Islam video
  • Catholic Mass

3
What is ritual?
  • Bodily pattern of actions, which is repeated
  • Human being is both body and spirit spirituality
    includes both
  • making faith visible (p. 87)
  • Symbol of faith, just like language
  • Rituals are ways of entering the realm of the
    sacred (p. 79)
  • Mark out time, space, deeper beliefs
  • Can act out a story
  • Forms community
  • Forms self-understanding

4
Types of ritual
  • Rites of passage
  • Birth circumcision, baptism
  • Initiation Bar/bat mitzvah, confirmation
  • Mourning and death
  • Temporal rites and celebrations
  • Seasons, harvest
  • Christian liturgical year (Advent, Christmas,
    Ordinary Time, Lent, Easter, Pentecost)

5
Religious meaning of ritual
  • Commemorate stories, people, events, ideas
  • Adoration worship
  • Acknowledges sovereignty of the sacred
  • Thanksgiving
  • Goodness of world is a gift from the sacred
  • Petition asking for aid
  • Penance/Purification

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Problems of ritual
  • Ritual without meaning empty gesture
  • Reaction lose rituals, focus on feelings and
    moral reform
  • Ritual as exercise of power superstition
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