Talk:Ritual
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What the eff is going on with the chaos majick implying some kind of neuroscientific association with ritual. Surely there is one, but is it at all related to chaos majick?
A ritual is a prescribed form of *performing divine service* in a particular *church or communion.*
"performing divine service" this is too.... vague. Or at least its loaded terminology, and as such belongs further down in the article.
I think staying general and maybe even generic is whats called for in a substantive text.
Also, what does a church have to do with ritual - yes, churches come with rituals, but rituals dont necessarily come with churches.
- Original 'author' Stevertigo
Why do so many cultures around the world rely on ritua;? It is a fundamental part of many relgions and many unreligious daily practices. Why are rituals so important to us?
[edit] "Symbolic"
The use of the term "symbolic" in this entry may be misleading at times, especially when applied to a dichotemy between "real" and "symbolic". There are many ways in which ritual actions can be seen as symbolic, yet in the history of ritual practice it is inaccurate to understand ritual actors as themselves mostly believing that they are performing merely "symbolic" gestures. One problem here is the theoretical vantage point of ritual theorists and social scientists which often stresses the symbolic nature of ritual action from an analytical point of view (but as such an explicitly analytical point of view and not the articulated "native point of view"). The first sentence in the entry even implies that ritual actors not only see their actions as symbolic, but perform them for symbolic ends, and that is rarely true. What can be done about this given how much "symbolic" factors into the language of the entry?PelleSmith 14:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
