Signs of Meaning: The Meaning of Meaninglessness as Key to the Understanding of Ritual Reality

The widspread occurrences of ritual activities make us wonder about their meaning and possible contribution to the achievement of humanity. To meet this challenge, the paper concentrates on ritual phenomena within the whole of cultural reality and as elements of the ritual process. In both instances...

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Main Author: Dupré, Wilhelm 1936-2024 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2016]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 553-574
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Culture / Ritualization / Ritual / Bedeutungslosigkeit
Further subjects:B vanishing point
B Myth
B Magic
B Religion
B meaning / meaninglessness
B emerging god-notions
B RITES & ceremonies
B MEANINGLESSNESS (Philosophy)
B cultural reality
B Ritual Process
B Humanity
B Ritual behaviour
B levels of ritualization
B God
B Culture
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