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Ritual, Media, and Conflict Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Ritual, Media, and Conflict By Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Ritual, Media, and Conflict by Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)


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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?

Ritual, Media, and Conflict Summary

Ritual, Media, and Conflict by Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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?

Ritual, Media, and Conflict Reviews

Scholars of religion will be well served by this thought-provoking volume, no matter how much experience they have with these issues. The wide ranging and engaging case studies provide ample insights into what will likely be the next chapter in religious practice. Readers will come away with curiosity piqued, ready to reflect more on the interplay of ritual, media, and conflict. * James F. Caccamo, Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
an interesting and valuable book * Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Anthropos *

About Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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

Table of Contents

1 Ritual, Media, and Conflict: An Introduction ; Ronald L. Grimes ; 2 From Ritual Ground to Stage ; Fletcher DuBois, Erik de Maaker, Karin Polit, and Marianne Riphagen ; 3 Insurgents and Icons ; Anna-Karina Hermkens and Eric Venbrux ; 4 Ritual as a Source of Conflict ; Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers ; 5 Place, Action, and Community in Internet Rituals ; Marga Altena, Catrien Notermans, Thomas Widlok ; 6 Contested Rituals in Virtual Worlds ; Simone Heidbrink, Nadja Miczek, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler ; 7 Media on the Ritual Battlefield ; Ignace de Haes, Ute Husken, and Paul van der Velde ; 8 What's at Stake in Torture? ; Werner Binder, Tom F. Driver, and Barry Stephenson ; 9 Refracting Ritual: An Upside-down Perspective on Ritual, Media and Conflict ; Michael Houseman

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NLS9780199735549
9780199735549
0199735549
Ritual, Media, and Conflict by Ronald L. Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen)
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
2011-05-26
320
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