 | Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 1982 - 181 pages
...way that this ritualized perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled, course of things. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts.... | |
 | Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 1987 - 202 pages
...Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is...principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts. But it also relies for its power on the perceived fact that, in actuality, such possibilities... | |
 | Jeffrey L. Rubenstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 256 pages
...way that this ritualized perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled course of things. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts.... | |
 | Jorunn Økland - Religion - 2005 - 339 pages
...Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is...activities placed within an extraordinary setting (Smith 1987: 109). The implications of this we see in 1 1 .25, where Jesus says: 'do this as often... | |
 | Robert Clyde Allen, Annette Hill - Performing Arts - 2004 - 656 pages
...'rather as sodal position within a hierarchical system' Iihid.: 45, added emphasis). 'Ritual' he argues: relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned...activities placed within an extraordinary setting . . . Ritual is a relationship of difference hetween 'nows' - the now of evervdav life and the now... | |
 | Tracy Pintchman - Religion - 2005 - 258 pages
...to the way things are." He accentuates the idealization of events embodied in ritual, arguing that "ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is...principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts. But it also relies for its power on the perceived fact that, in actuality, such possibilities... | |
 | Brannon Wheeler - History - 2006 - 347 pages
...may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. . . . Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts.... | |
 | Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Bennett Simon, Michael J,, Michael J. Puett, Simon, - Religion - 2008 - 246 pages
...way that this ritualized perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled course of things. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts.... | |
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... displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are. 