New Rituals-Old Societies : Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel
by
Nissan Rubin
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Judaism and Jewish Life
ISBN-10
1934843350
ISBN-13
9781934843352
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Imprint
Academic Studies Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 20th, 2009
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
466 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesJewish studies
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Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection of essays examines the way civil religion invents collective rites for turning points in community life, and personal definitional rites for ratification of identity change in the individual's life cycle.
Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New Rituals - Old Societies examines rituals which were invented by individuals and communities in order to celebrate important turning points. In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals was introduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outside sources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols through the infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology. The term "personal definitional rites" coined here refers to rites carried out by individuals undergoing a change in identity. Structural analysis supplies an additional dimension to this collection of studies.
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