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Zusatztext an interesting and valuable book Informationen zum Autor Ronald L. Grimes: Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen; Ute Husken: Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oslo; Udo Simon: Research Associate, Islamic Studies, University of Heidelberg; Eric Venbrux : Professor of Anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen Klappentext An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?" Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?" Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Ritual, Media, and Conflict: An Introduction Ronald L. Grimes 2.: From Ritual Ground to Stage Fletcher DuBois, Erik de Maaker, Karin Polit, and Marianne Riphagen 3.: Insurgents and Icons Anna-Karina Hermkens and Eric Venbrux 4.: Ritual as a Source of Conflict Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers 5.: Place, Action, and Community in Internet Rituals Marga Altena, Catrien Notermans, Thomas Widlok 6.: Contested Rituals in Virtual Worlds Simone Heidbrink, Nadja Miczek, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler 7.: Media on the Ritual Battlefield Ignace de Haes, Ute Hÿsken, and Paul van der Velde 8.: What's at Stake in Torture? Werner Binder, Tom F. Driver, and Barry Stephenson 9.: Refracting Ritual: An Upside-down Perspective on Ritual, Media and Conflict Michael Houseman ...
