Concept of Ritual in the Psychology of Religion and Ritual Studies

Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Halina; Simpson, Scott

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“…“Ritual” can be a pejorative term in the secular lexicon as it has connotations of, primitive, ignorant, meaningless, and destructive [ 33 ]. In an extreme example, Freud used “ritual” with a very constricted meaning essentially applied to repetitive, pathological compulsive behaviours of the neurotic [ 34 ]. Ritual, in secular usage, is also a practice of ancient, less cognitively developed peoples [ 35 , 36 ].…”

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Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

ul-Ain

Whiting

2017

Animals

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Simple SummaryThe question of how to kill animals for food has persisted unresolved in the Anglo-American and European social and political discourse for more than a century. Scientific informed narrative has been directed at “documenting” the experience of the slaughtered animal in the last few seconds of life. Other narratives include wide social informed narratives of cultural, historical and religious meanings of food. Slaughter by rapid exsanguination is examined as an “essentially contested” concept as a response to the resiliency of this question in modern society.AbstractThe phrase “essentially contested concept” (ECC) entered the academic literature in 1956 in an attempt to better characterize certain contentious concepts of political theory. Commonly identified examples of contested concepts are morality, religion, democracy, science, nature, philosophy, and certain types of creative products such as the novel and art. The structure proposed to identify an ECC has proven useful in a wide variety of deliberative discourse in the social, political, and religious arenas where seemingly intractable but productive debates are found. Where a strongly held moral position is contradicted by law, a portion of the citizenry see the law as illegitimate and do not feel compelled to respect it. This paper will attempt to apply the analytic structure of ECC to the concept of animal wellbeing at the time of slaughter specifically a “good death.” The results of this analysis supports an understanding that the current slaughter debate is a disagreement in moral belief and normative moral theory. The parties to the dispute have differing visions of the “good.” The method of slaughter is not an essentially contested concept where further discourse is likely to result in a negotiated resolution. The position statements of veterinary organizations are used as an example of current discourse.

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Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

ul-Ain

Whiting

2017

Animals

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“…Ritual studies are increasingly acknowledged as an interdisciplinary field of study with a focus on ritual as a cultural domain, rather than exclusively a religious domain (Grimes, 2014; Legare, Watson-Jones, & Souza, 2016). Less attention has been paid to psychological theories of ritual, with some exceptions (Beckstead, 2016; Grzymala-Moszczynska & Simpson, 1997; Legare et al., 2016; McCauley & Lawson, 2004; Vohs, Wang, Gino, & Norton, 2013). Recently, ritual has been gaining attention in psychological literature, such as neuropsychological approaches to ritual as a sensory and rhythmic experience (Bull & Mitchell, 2015; Hainskou & Liebst, 2016).…”

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Towards a psychology of ritual: A theoretical framework of ritual transformation in a globalising world

Wojtkowiak

2018

Culture & Psychology

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Rituals are argued to be transformative in the literature. However, a psychological understanding of transformative ritual has been lacking. Moreover, in contemporary society, meaning-making processes are more complex and uncertain, and the practice of ritualising leads to more individualised and dynamic rituals. This article explores the question how to understand ritual transformation from a psychological perspective. In this theoretical review, insights from ritual studies are combined with psychological theories to build a theoretical framework on ritual transformation. Ritual is found to be transformative in terms of (1) aesthetic distance, (2) structured performance and (3) social collaboration. Ritual is considered in this article to be a culturally scripted event that cultivates emotions and thoughts through symbolic action in a social setting. The article ends with suggestions on how to study this framework in future empirical research.

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Concept of Ritual in the Psychology of Religion and Ritual Studies

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Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

Towards a psychology of ritual: A theoretical framework of ritual transformation in a globalising world

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