Ritual, Media, and Conflict

Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973523-5 (ISBN)

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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. 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?"

Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, maintaining, and challenging political and economic power, as well as in determining the nature of religious practice. 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. Here, 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 chapter, built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict, is multi-authored. 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?"

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

RONALD L. GRIMES; FLETCHER DUBOIS, ERIK DE MAAKER, KARIN POLIT, AND MARIANNE RIPHAGEN; ANNA-KARINA HERMKENS AND ERIC VENBRUX; ROBERT LANGER, THOMAS QUARTIER, UDO SIMON, JAN SNOEK, AND GERARD WIEGERS; MARGA ALTENA, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, THOMAS WIDLOK; SIMONE HEIDBRINK, NADJA MICZEK, KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER; IGNACE DE HAES, UTE HUSKEN, AND PAUL VAN DER VELDE; WERNER BINDER, TOM F. DRIVER, AND BARRY STEPHENSON; MICHAEL HOUSEMAN

Reihe/Serie	Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 163 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-19-973523-9 / 0199735239
ISBN-13	978-0-19-973523-5 / 9780199735235
Zustand	Neuware