Using high exposure and elevated contrast, Craig - Martin's close - ups represent the vanity, excess, and arcane
social rituals of our culture, while simultaneously providing commentary on the vulnerability of her subjects and what she describes as their «failed armor.»
Internationally acclaimed American artist Tina Barney burst on the scene in the early 1980s with her provocative yet intimate photographs capturing the domestic lives and
social rituals of the elite.
Anthropologists have told us a great deal about how the ceremonies, beliefs and
the social rituals of death differ greatly across the world, but we have few clues about how these different approaches affect how people experience the dead after they have gone.
Fascinated by the shared
social ritual of collecting, arranging, and presenting objects, Steinbach originally culled used goods from flea markets and yard sales for his art works.
The space underneath a table is familiar on a human physical scale, and relates to the universally familiar
social ritual of a shared meal or exchanged conversation.
Steinbach is interested in the shared
social ritual of collecting, arranging and presenting everyday objects and materials, an experience that on a basic level extends to us all, whether it's through -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
They provide all
of us with a sense
of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part
of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability;
social gatherings,
rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.
By contrast, during the widespread «satanic
ritual abuse» hysteria
of the 1980s, people believed bizarre accusations
of child abuse, which were being perpetuated by credulous
social workers and psychotherapists.
Are we persuaded that the water we pour does wonders, or that a little
ritual meal forms the
social body
of the incarnate Son
of God, the assembly
of God among the nations?
Since time immemorial, etiquette has been used to establish the principles
of social virtue, as well as the rules, symbols, and
rituals of civilized life.
A more reliable description
of religion would make reference to its many aspects, including knowledge, beliefs, experience,
ritual practices,
social affiliation, motivation and behavioral consequences.
With increasing complexity in Israel's
social life, however, came corresponding developments in
ritual and priesthood, especially after royal families began copying, in temple architecture, modes
of worship, and priestly prerogatives, the models
of Phoenicia.
Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding
ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality
of inward spiritual life and outward
social service on the part
of those who in the sacrifice
of the Mass see Christ verily present.
In Whitehead's «theory
of religion,» the development
of religion leads (at least in its last level that we know
of) to a rationalization
of religious experience (LM 20 - 36) 5 Although, at first, religious concerns were preoccupied with
rituals, partial myths, and emotional stabilization, later religious consciousness evolved increasingly towards the recognition
of universal connectivity, leaving behind provincial
rituals and
social bindings (RM 28).
As members
of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their
ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing
social order.
Factors such as trade routes, the order
of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and
social stratification» not to mention a vast array
of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type
of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form
of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.
But there are enough tidbits to imply that he was a
Social Gospel Christian, very much the product
of his family's targeted philanthropy and devotion to liberal Protestantism.The grandson
of America's first billionaire, Rockefeller was born into a pious Baptist home where liquor, smoking and profanity were prohibited, family prayers were a daily
ritual, and the Sabbath always sacred.
Those in America, obviously, have a different
social view
of the church's practices, values,
rituals which often times are reluctantly ignored.
It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and
rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature
of things, and that the
social structure is but a true reflection
of the innate qualities
of human nature in its several kinds.
This has down - played the justice dimension
of spirituality and stressed only
social service and
ritual worship.
Their allegiance implied rejection
of all other gods and service
of him alone in
ritual and in national and
social obedience.
Perhaps most important
of all is the development
of social customs and pressures against individual and solitary drinking for psychological relief and in favor
of community
rituals in which the need to belong and to celebrate the goodness
of life can be constructively satisfied.
That will depend on how ready people are to reshape their spiritual inheritance in response to the new global culture, for in the coming global era, new terms and concepts will be created, along with new
rituals and patterns
of social behavior.
«Traditional»
rituals, moral and
social values, may «work» in parts
of the country where a Protestant ethos is still a part
of regional culture.
Dallas was a classic instance
of what
social scientists call the
rituals of self - denigration.
As
social scientists assist pastor and people in developing a rich fund
of the stories, traditions, world views, character, symbols, and
rituals of a congregation, chances for God's Word impacting the congregation in profound ways are greatly enhanced.
Social responsibility and discernment require a clear perception
of such rival myths and their power, recognition
of such competing visions and
rituals, ability to exorcize those that are malign, and to reconcile those that are benign.
Almost every department
of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images
of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms
of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community
rituals,
social ideologies, and not least in the mass media
of the time.
At the same time, there are religions, and some
of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the
ritual: aspect
of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that
social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems
of ethics, and some
of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.
Most strikingly, however, it prescribes with the
ritual requirements for meeting the restrictions created by Yahweh's holiness an even higher moral,
social and ethical demand than is found in either
of the other codes.
The Church imposes an egalitarian
social order in the organisation
of its
rituals and is increasingly involved in secular affairs, thus collapsing the complementarity
of religious equality and caste hierarchy, and more generally
of the sacred and the secular.
The possibility
of social transformation was seen to depend on finding God in each individual through the communal
rituals of worship and service.
The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality
of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the
social organization
of distinct communities and the collective
rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.
WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations
of philosophy and psychological benefits
of religious
ritual, along with other
social sciences, as part
of science... instead
of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch
of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.
In yet another
social form, Hopewell notes, persons can gather occasionally and informally at a religious shrine, each to perform her or his own individual meritorious
rituals of devotion.
This proposition is examined in terms
of the three universal expressions or functions
of religious faith, whether theistic or non-theistic: the practical, or the system
of worship or
ritual; the sociological, or the system
of social relationships; and the theoretical, or the system
of beliefs.
The threat to this idea
of secularism arises form religious fundamentalism which is afraid
of insecurity through change in traditional religious dogmas,
ritual practices
of purity and impurity in
social laws; the threat also comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's religious community or in the case
of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.
Now this tendency, through the influence
of grace, is not often exhibited in matters
of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element
of Catholic duty; but in matters
of conduct,
of ritual,
of discipline,
of politics,
of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising
of the human mind against the authority
of the Church, and
of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.
Religion and its
rituals afforded a creative «anti-structure,» a great «time out that was distinguished from the rigid maintenance
of social orders and hierarchies.
In The First Urban Christians (1983) Meeks tells the story
of Jesus groups founded by Paul, focusing on their «urban» environment, their
social life and the formation
of their ekklesia, governance,
ritual, patterns
of belief and patterns
of life.
Later on, Turner portrayed religion as embodying aspects
of both structure and anti-structure, and
rituals as those special activities that mediate the opposing demands
of both «communitas» and the formalized
social order.
In fact, when deprived
of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies
of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and
ritual excommunications all under the garb
of social analysis.
With the erosion
of religious, ethnic and
social connections and the
rituals and practices they provide to confront mortality and bereavement, more and more
of us must reinvent, from the leftovers and borrowings
of our various traditions, the wheel that works the space between the deaths that happen and the deaths that matter.
Part
of the attack on suburban conformity had included precisely the criticism that churchgoing was but a
social ritual, not a sign
of deep commitment.
Space does not permit elucidation
of the specific principles on which they worked, but it may suffice for our purpose to note that the law, the shari`a, as built up by the founders and generations
of commentators, embraces all the rules
of God's prescription for the conduct
of men — domestic life, political and
social activities, religious and
ritual duties.
Through the various circumstances that determined its composition there were included certain
social codes and much
ritual direction, both
of which had enjoyed a long history and operation.
And he was apparently most scrupulous in the performance
of the
rituals, both religious and
social, which were proper to his time and station.
After all, most food institutions cater to the traditional American diet, and many
of our
rituals and
social activities revolve around food.
2008 Robbie Davis - Floyd, entry on «
Rituals,» International Encyclopedia
of the
Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by Wm. A. Darity.
According to current attachment research, after divorce, evenings and overnights provide opportunities for crucial
social interactions and nurturing activities that access «visits» can not provide, including bathing, soothing hurts and anxieties, bedtime
rituals, comforting in the middle
of the night, and the reassurance and security
of snuggling in the morning after awakening.