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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 Hüsken! 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 ...
