The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism
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威利·布莱克威尔人文主义手册
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10.1002/9781118793305.ch12
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2015
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Engelke M
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Engelke M
本章探讨了人文主义仪式的制作，并讨论了为什么自我认定的人文主义者和世俗主义者（他们经常在“自由思想”传统中定义自己）想要培育仪式，因为仪式常常意味着与宗教相关的例行公事、纪律和权威。它重点关注英国人文主义协会 (BHA) 的主礼人提供的葬礼，该协会是英国最重要的非宗教组织，也是此类仪式发展的世界领导者之一。因此，“非宗教”葬礼是一种有意识地决定将事件及其重要性置于“内在框架”内的葬礼。人类学家经常观察到，仪式性的言语和行为具有特殊的意义和力量。仪式构建了一个社会世界，它传达和验证了看待世界的特定方式。
This chapter explores the making of a humanist ceremony, and discusses why self‐identified humanists and secularists, who often define themselves within the tradition of ‘free thought’, want to foster ceremonies, given that ceremonies so often connote the routine, discipline, and authority associated with religion. It focuses on funerals provided by celebrants in the British Humanist Association (BHA), the most important non‐religious organization in the United Kingdom, and one of the world leaders in the development of such ceremonies. A ‘non‐religious’ funeral, then, is one in which a conscious decision has been made to ground the event and its importance within ‘the immanent frame’. Anthropologists often observe that ritual speech and action carry particular meaning and force. Ritual frames a social world, and it communicates and validates a particular way of looking at the world.