Ritual, Media, and Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780199735235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 320 str.

Ronald L. Grimes; Ute Husken; Udo Simon

Opis

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

Recenzje

Scholars of religion will be well served by this thought-provoking volume, no matter how much experience they have with these issues. The wide ranging and engaging case studies provide ample insights into what will likely be the next chapter in religious practice. Readers will come away with curiosity piqued, ready to reflect more on the interplay of ritual, media, and conflict. James F. Caccamo, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Spis treści

From the contents:

1.: Ritual, Media, and Conflict: An Introduction; Ronald L. Grimes;
2.: From Ritual Ground to Stage; Fletcher DuBois, Erik de Maaker, Karin Polit, and Marianne Riphagen;
3.: Insurgents and Icons; Anna-Karina Hermkens and Eric Venbrux;
4.: Ritual as a Source of Conflict; Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers;
5.: Place, Action, and Community in Internet Rituals; Marga Altena, Catrien Notermans, Thomas Widlok;
6.: Contested Rituals in Virtual Worlds; Simone Heidbrink, Nadja Miczek, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler;
7.: Media on the Ritual Battlefield; Ignace de Haes, Ute Hüsken, and Paul van der Velde;
8.: What's at Stake in Torture?; Werner Binder, Tom F. Driver, and Barry Stephenson;
9.: Refracting Ritual: An Upside-down Perspective on Ritual, Media and Conflict; Michael Houseman

O autorze

Ronald L. Grimes: Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen; Ute Husken: Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oslo; Udo Simon: Research Associate, Islamic Studies, University of Heidelberg; Eric Venbrux : Professor of Anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen