Ritual (Re)design: Towards a Framework for Professional Ritual Making in Postsecular Contexts

Ritualizing, the creative, imaginative, and intuitive act of ritual making has been acknowledged for some time now in the literature. In this study, this intuitive process is studied in more detail from the perspective of ritual theory. The aim is to theoretically strengthen a framework of ritual ma...

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Subtitles:Ritual Design
Ritual Redesign
Main Author: Wojtkowiak, Joanna 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Groningen Press 2022
In: Yearbook for ritual and liturgical studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 38, Pages: 108-123
Further subjects:B ritualizing
B postsecular society
B professional ritual making
B ritual (re-) design
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Summary:Ritualizing, the creative, imaginative, and intuitive act of ritual making has been acknowledged for some time now in the literature. In this study, this intuitive process is studied in more detail from the perspective of ritual theory. The aim is to theoretically strengthen a framework of ritual making for professionals, such as chaplains and celebrants working with renewed rituals. A practical framework comprising three steps of ritual making is discussed in more detail: 1) communicating about ritual theme or cause, 2) the ritual (re)design and 3) performing the ritual. Ritualizing leads to dynamics and possible tensions, such as between introducing new elements and (re)using old ones or between the individual and the collective. The article offers an entry point or building block to understand contemporary ritual making in postsecular contexts.
ISSN:2589-3998
Contains:Enthalten in: Yearbook for ritual and liturgical studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.21827/YRLS.38.108-123