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Acts define faith: Grimes' Beginnings in Ritual Studies

Acts define faith: Grimes’ Beginnings in Ritual Studies

  I’ve just begun reading Ronald Grimes early ground-breaking work in ritual studies (1st ed. 1982), Beginnings in Ritual Studies.  In popular thinking, the notion of “ritual” is often negatively appreciated as empty routine actions.  Yet the truth is, ”ritual” permeates all human life, such as daily getting up on a fixed schedule, then bathing and dressing in certain manners.  Related to…

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Liturgy & the Idiosyncratic

Liturgy & the Idiosyncratic

Because we have bodies, there is an inescapable idiosyncratic element to the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. No matter how faithfully I strive to “Say the Black” and “Do the Red,” my saying and doing will reflect something of my own, physical and temperamental, individuality.

Yes, with time, I can minimize how much of my individuality “leaks” through. But “as long as I am in this tent” (2…

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Although scholars sometimes talk as if ritual occasions always demand that people be well behaved and orderly, this is a front-of-house view. /// On such occasions people not only enjoy themselves, they also argue, fight, and compete. Conflict at the edges of festivals and rituals is as normal as fun at the center.

Ronald Grimes - The Craft of Ritual Studies

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"Just as a craftsperson can antique a newly built bookcase to look well-worn, so communities can mint activities to seem weathered, reeking with the odor of sanctity. Not all that looks old is."

Ronald Grimes, in The Craft Of Ritual Studies