Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first collection in the Social History archives of the Carpenter Center, archives which are presently being designed and organized by Barbara P. Norfleet, Wedding documents the most important ritual in American society. For all recent heresy, the majority of Americans still silently believe in marriage, and those who have denied it do so with the slight thrill of blasphemy. The institution of marriage seems to matter...
Such a symbolic rite generates ritual objects, dedicated to the potential event. Wedding is a collection of such talismen. These photos were intended as documentation of an important moment, but, more significantly, they were created to evoke a mood, inspire some faith. Like votive offerings at a shrine, they do not merely record a commitment, they reaffirm and even manufacture that commitment. Pictures of a marriage are magic, or at least those involved want them...
...battery of physical and psychological tests. Only when qualified doctors cannot find a medical reason for the symptoms will an exorcist be called in to expel the spirit. Martin describes the procedure and ceremony carefully, even to the point of printing the text spoken by attending priests, the Roman Ritual of Exorcism, as an appendix...
...Hostage to the Devil is not convincing, or satisfying about the nature of possession, Martin does sound a currently pervasive message, a call for a return to certain Christian doctrines. There has been an increased interest in the supernatural among organized churches. The Anglicans have published a new exorcism ritual. Pope Paul VI announced in November 1972 that one of the greatest needs of the Catholic Church "is defense from that evil which is called the devil." After reading Hostage to the Devil, Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School wrote: "It did make me realize that as the currently...
...keeps out the fat curls of smoke and perfume and breath thickened with alcohol. Here is no tall, thin, hipless model. The boy is a bit short and very muscular--he resembles classical statues of Greek god. Perhaps he pretends he is centuries away, dancing in some ancient mystic ritual. The glass wall deflects all human contact: he will twitch his butt at you but he will not meet your...