tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489111.post1270241923015241888..comments2023-09-25T07:29:38.364-06:00Comments on Café Philos: an internet café: The Functions of Ritual in Religion?Paul Sunstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02462598852553696040noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489111.post-35561051436748970382007-09-25T08:53:00.000-06:002007-09-25T08:53:00.000-06:00I can give you another aspect of a ritual...a ritu...I can give you another aspect of a ritual...a ritual can give the person doing it a sense of peace. I have personally seen it...its like chanting prayers...its repetitive and can be mindless but makes you concentrate on God. I myself do not get any sense of peace with rituals but I almost envy those who do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489111.post-31818000440831357362007-09-23T21:40:00.000-06:002007-09-23T21:40:00.000-06:00I suspect a further mundane aspect of rituals. Rel...I suspect a further mundane aspect of rituals. Religious structures are often rather complicated and nebulous networks of information. To deal with this, you have to anchor it well, and rituals, those repetitive actions or phrases, do that. As was already said, the ritual takes you into the heart of it, back to where you have been, without having to reconstruct the complicated map that got you there before. Also as you add more depth to the ritual, more information, it frees you to deal with the rest of it.<BR/><BR/>Just a theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489111.post-70240871734775142782007-09-23T17:46:00.000-06:002007-09-23T17:46:00.000-06:00Ritual harnesses human neurology to religious or p...Ritual harnesses human neurology to religious or political purpose. As Daniel Dennett says in his rebuttal to Rick Warren; <A HREF="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/94" REL="nofollow">"Every time you repeat it, you make another copy of it in your brain</A>".george.whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10893495384863805805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489111.post-89544106882270151662007-09-23T10:22:00.000-06:002007-09-23T10:22:00.000-06:00In my experience, many of the rituals that we (Hin...In my experience, many of the rituals that we (Hindus) have are the result of a systematic effort by the priestly class to keep others at bay and create some kind of exclusivity :p<BR/>PS: Since I was born in a priestly class, I learnt them too. It pays off very well here in Canada :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com