The power of ritual in the modern world | Noel Carroll, Hannah Dawson, Linda Woodhead
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Aesthetic of Rituals
Rituals can be very aesthetically designed to focus attention and embolden a group, says land. But social circumstances change all the time so our formalities have to mutate as well. The way that calendrical ritual is changing in britain and many christian countries is an example of how it may disappear because pandemics make it vanish.
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