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Rites: Rites are ceremonies or rituals that are performed to mark important life events or transitions. They are often associated with religious beliefs. See also Religion, Religious beliefs, C. Lévy-Strauss._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Émile Durkheim on Rites - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 84 Rites/Sacral/Holiness/Society/Durkheim/Habermas: the ritual actions show that the sacral expression is a normative consensus that is regularly updated: "There is no society that has not felt the need to bring collective feelings and ideas to life and strenghten them at regular intervals. This moral revival can only be achieved with the help of associations, assemblies and congregations in which individuals (...) together strengthen their common feelings. (1) Habermas IV 85 Ceremonies/Durkheim/Habermas: Ceremonies of this kind do not represent anything; they are rather the exemplarily repeated execution of a consensus that is at the same time renewed, whose contents are peculiarly self-referential. These are variations on one and the same theme, the very presence of the holy; and this, in turn, is only the form in which the collective experiences "its unity and personality". The fact of a successful consensus is also its essential content. 1. E. Durkheim, Les formes élementaires de la vie religieuse, Paris, 1968, German: Frankfurt 1981 S. p. 571._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Durkheim I E. Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method - French: Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, Paris 1895 German Edition: Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode Frankfurt/M. 1984 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |