 | Jonathan Z. Smith - 1982 - 181 ページ
...variables (ie, the accidents) of ordinary life may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means...recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled, course of things. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities,... | |
 | Jonathan Z. Smith - 1987 - 202 ページ
...variables (the accidents) of ordinary life may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means...to be in conscious tension to the way things are. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is concerned with quite ordinary activities placed... | |
 | Douglas Renfrew Brooks - 1992 - 332 ページ
...Srlvidya's Tantric ritual and can be read separately. Taking my cue from Jonathan Z. Smith's statement that, "Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought...to be in conscious tension to the way things are," I will demonstrate that Srlvidya's contemplative disciplines do not simply recreate the ultimate unity... | |
 | William E. Klingshirn - 2004 - 348 ページ
...view and providing a model for Christian living in the everyday world. AsJ. Z. Smith has explained, "Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought...perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled order of things."48 The music people heard at Mass, the images they saw, the ritual actions they witnessed... | |
 | Delwin Brown - 1994 - 232 ページ
...the contrasting functions of ritual. As Smith says, at a general level ritual can be understood as "a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are." 52 Sometimes that performance accentuates the tension—the discrepancy between the real and ideal—thus... | |
 | Giuseppe Mantovani - 1996 - 172 ページ
...environment where the variables of ordinary life may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means...tension to the way things are, in such a way that their ritualized perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled course of things' (ibid.).... | |
 | Anna Lisa Peterson - 1997 - 240 ページ
...not only interpretation but also real-life behavior. Jonathan Z. Smith elaborates this perspective: "Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought...recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled, course of things." 4 In progressive Catholicism in El Salvador, the most important religious rituals present... | |
 | Luke Timothy Johnson - 212 ページ
...variables (the accidents) of ordinary life may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means...ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are (p. 109) — Ritual, concerned primarily with difference, is, necessarily, an affair of the relative"... | |
 | Denis Feeney - 1998 - 180 ページ
...or carved calendars you could find in his 34 Smith (1 982). 63 (original emphasis). Hecontinues: ' Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in consiious, tension to the way things are in such a way that this ritualized perfection is recollected... | |
 | Katharina Waldner - 2000 - 300 ページ
...irgendwelchen Zufallen oder praktischen Notwendigkeiten, diesen Aspekt des Rituals betont va Smith (1982), 63: „Ritual is a means of performing the way things...recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled, course of things." Vgl. auch Geertz (1997), 78 der betont, daß durch Rituale religiöse Vorstellungen zu erlebbarer... | |
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I would suggest that, among other things, ritual represents the creation of a controlled environment where the variables (ie, the accidents) of ordinary life may be displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful.... 
