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Response to Deborah Raptopoulos
Posted 9/13/2004
Thank you so much for your comment. As you know, rituals are able to hold and express difference and contradictions, and enable us to be connected to one another. While our contemporary culture does not have agreed upon rituals for the many daily, annual and life cycle transitions you cited, I find that creating rituals is deeply in us as human beings, and that when the need arises, we often respond with meaningful rituals.
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CAN RITUALS BE DESTRUCTIVE?
Posted 9/14/2004
Evan, I have always wondered whether the process of ritual can be destructive to participating individuals and communities in which they take place. For example, would some aspects of the Salem withch trials and the consequent punishments be properly regarded as rituals? If there are destructive rituals, what are the characteristics by which someone would distinguish destructive vs constructive rituals?
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