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Rites for Modern Man: New Practices in Sweden

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Lina Midholm
  • Annika Nordström
  • Maria T. Agozzino

Summary, in English

This article offers a new perspective on the use of ritual and tradition in contemporary Sweden. Urbanization, immigration, cultural pluralism, the capitalist market system, changing conditions for women, the influence of mass media, and individualism are all characteristic of the social condition of modernity that have radically changed the context of ritual and transformed traditional patterns. New rituals or ritualized practices have emerged that respond to these contemporary societal structures. It presents some of these practices, discusses different categories of new ritual mastery and investigates the increasing demand from the participants for efficacy and personal meaning in rituals. Finally, it raises the delicate question whether it is justifiable, or even desirable, to maintain a critical stance to these features of modernity.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

83-92

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Ritual Year and Ritual Diversity: Proceedings of the second International Conference of the SIEF Working Group on the Ritual Year, Gothenburg June 7-11, 2006

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Ämne

  • History of Religions

Nyckelord

  • Rituals
  • modernity
  • commodification of rites

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-7229-039-6