Nissan Rubin

New Rituals-Old Societies

Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New Rituals - Old Societies examines rituals which were invented by individuals and communities in order to celebrate important turning points. In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals was introduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outside sources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols through the infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology. The term "personal definitional rites" coined here refers to rites carried out by individuals undergoing a change in identity. Structural analysis supplies an additional dimension to this collection of studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781934843352
• ISBN-10: 1934843350
• Artikelnr.: 27018366

Autorenporträt

Nissan Rubin (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 1977) is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. His published books include: Research Methods in Social Science - Strategy, Design and Measurement. Tel-Aviv: Dekel, 1978 (with Ernest Krausz and Steven H. Miller), The Beginning of Life: Rites of Birth, Circumcision and Redemption of the First-Born in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 1995 The End of Life: Rites of Burial and Mourning in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha- Meuchad, 1988 and The Joy of Life: Rites of Betrothal and Marriage in the Talmud and Midrash. Tel-Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. PART ONE: RITES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE. Chapter
One: Social Networks and Mourning: A Comparative Approach. Chapter Two:
Unofficial Memorial Rites in an Army Unit. PART TWO: RITES AND CIVIL
RELIGION: INVENTION OF TRADITION. Chapter Three: Ethnic Civil Religion: A
Case Study of Immigrants from Rumania in Israel (with Rina Neeman). Chapter
Four: Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz: The Use of Sacred Symbols
in a Secular Society. Chapter Five: Personal Bereavement in a Collective
Environment: Mourning in the Kibbutz. PART THREE: PERSONAL DEFINITIONAL
RITES: CHANGING ONE¿S IDENTITY. Chapter Six: From Fat to Thin: Informal
Rituals of Identity Change (with Carmela Shmilovitz and Meira Weiss).
Chapter Seven: Formal and Informal Retirement Rites in the Israeli Army
(with Drora Peer). REFERENCES. General Index. Authors Index.