Word: rituals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society, that is, a gradual and imperceptible phase of life which leaves childhood and merges gently with adulthood, the possibility for any psychological strengths for a firmer development to mature is opened. Above all, it integrates the individual's search for an ideological form, for the valid, underlying rituals of our society in an attempt to counteract the meaninglessness and vagueness of society's conventions and values. [Ritual is used in the sense that Erikson describes ritualization: a mutually accepted interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at intervals and in recurrent contexts and which has an adaptive...
...Harvard doctor holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess...
...Jana Sangh, party members met last week and picked another moderate of the same stripe: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 41, an ex-newspaper editor who served as party leader in the lower house of Parliament. After Upadhya-ya's death, which was followed by an emotional funeral and ritual burning of the body in New Delhi, the new party leader will need all of his political skills to keep his party extremists in line...
...Ritual Destruction. Soutine had a more difficult time finding his own style than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
Rubenstein believes that religion still has a worthwhile social value in an age of atheism. He is convinced that it can help men live with "the cold, indifferent cosmos" by providing a form of fellowship and hope, primarily through spiritually satisfying liturgy and ritual. "The primary role of religion is priestly," Rubenstein argues. "It offers men a ritual and mythic structure in which the abiding realities of life and death can be shared...