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Series:   Elements in Religion and Violence

Elements of Ritual and Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

Margo Kitts
Margo Kitts
Affiliation:
Hawaii Pacific University

Summary

Ritualized violence is by definition not haphazard or random, but seemingly intentional and often ceremonial. It has a long history in religious practice, as attested in texts and artifacts from the earliest civilizations. It is equally evident in the behaviors of some contemporary religious activists and within initiatory practices ongoing in many regions of the world. Given its longevity and cultural expanse, ritualized violence presumably exerts a pull deeply into the sociology, psychology, anthropology, theology, perhaps even ontology of its practitioners, but this is not transparent. This short volume will sketch the subject of ritualized violence, that is, it will summarize some established theories about ritual and about violence, and will ponder a handful of striking instantiations of their link.
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Series: Elements in Religion and Violence
Online ISBN: 9781108692236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 26 July 2018

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