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Spiritual Speculation Space

Rituals

November 9, 2023

Discussion Background materials

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.” - Abraham Verghese

 

  • Do you have rituals you participate in?

  • Have you established any of your own (or your family’s own) rituals?

  • How important is conveyance of themes via rituals?

  • Have rituals declined in society?

  • Have they been personalized?

  • Are there things we experience that are rituals but we don’t think of them as rituals?

  • Is there a difference between a sacrament and a ritual?

This Disappearance of Rituals - Byung-Chul Han 

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