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Some Ideas about the Persistence of Rituals

Issue: Vol 11 No. 1 (2008) IR 11.1

Journal: Implicit Religion

Subject Areas: Religious Studies

DOI: 10.1558/imre.v11i1.39

Abstract:

In this essay, one particular function of rituals is explored: that of ritual as markers. It is the social importance function as marker that often lends rituals a religious nature, and consequently the religious aspects do not disappear entirely in the course of the process of secularisation, but remain in existence, explicitly at times, and at times also implicitly.

Author: M.B. ter Borg

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