The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities - Hardcover

Driver, Tom F.

 
9780060620967: The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 006062096X ISBN 13: 9780060620967
Verlag: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This book evokes the need for contemporary rituals that give people's lives meaning and value. As both a theologian and a theatre critic, the author became increasingly convinced that the chronic boredom and impotency of traditional church services, modern theatre performances, everyday rights of passage and even political campaigns were leaving a dangerous void that had to be filled with poor substitutes. He shows that the rituals of mainstream religion for the most part lack any power of real transformation, and puts the case that to be fully alive is to participate in the power of ritual.

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This book evokes the need for contemporary rituals that give people's lives meaning and value. As both a theologian and a theatre critic, the author became increasingly convinced that the chronic boredom and impotency of traditional church services, modern theatre performances, everyday rights of passage and even political campaigns were leaving a dangerous void that had to be filled with poor substitutes. He shows that the rituals of mainstream religion for the most part lack any power of real transformation, and puts the case that to be fully alive is to participate in the power of ritual.

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Verlag
HarperSanFrancisco
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
006062096X
ISBN 13 
9780060620967
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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