The power of ritual in the modern world | Noel Carroll, Hannah Dawson, Linda Woodhead
Philosophy For Our Times
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I'm Not Sure if It's a Good Idea to Eradicate Formality and Ritual
Rituals are, with important respects, practices that we set aside. We put them off from the flow of everyday life. They are events that are made their platforms for all sorts of things. Formalities and rituals evolve socially to serve purposes,. which they do badly or well or indifferently. The purposes, in turn, are that they serve are needful, useful, optimal, benign.
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