As we will discover, not all instances of the in-game rituals can be characterized as the elaborate, stylized, more or less 'classical' rituals we know from institutionalized religion; the minimalistic and/or abbreviated forms of the two rituals are also very informative about the nature of ...
5) has put it in the context of Santería in Cuba: “it is not rituals in themselves that generate moral community, but rather rituals together with the discourses they provoke that embody and thus bring into tangible being a moral community.” Rituals, other forms of affecting presence, and...
Is it useful to follow fastidious and meaningless rituals, to comply with obsolete and childish prescriptions that make him a despot, a jealous god, a very unsavory being? All of this is superfluous. All you have to do is go in and you’re there. Am I saying that faith is useless? Ab...