Ritual, Media, and Conflict

By: Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux

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Paperback | 23 March 2011

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Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

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"Scholars of religion will be well served by this thought-provoking volume, no matter how much experience they have with these issues. The wide ranging and engaging case studies provide ample insights into what will likely be the next chapter in religious practice. Readers will come away with curiosity piqued, ready to reflect more on the interplay of ritual, media, and conflict." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion "An impressive collection of essays that enlivens and exhilarates like a gathering of scholars where debate and conversation, wonder and surprise trump certainty and resolution. This collaborative project situates case studies in a global context where ritual is as likely to be an act of transgression as a tool for reconciliation, where torture sessions and online memorials are observed and participated in by distant strangers as well as friends and neighbors." -- Sarah M. Pike, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community "A great deal of credit must be given, then, to the contributors to Ritual, Media, and Conflict, an interdisciplinary investigation of what may be three of most ubiquitous aspects of human life...Scholars of religion will be well served by this thought-provoking volume, no matter how much experience they have with these issues. The wide ranging and engaging case studies provide ample insights into what will likely be the next chapter in religious practice. Readers will come away with curiosity piqued, ready to reflect more on the interplay of ritual, media, and conflict."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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