The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship
The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship
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仪式的原型行为：耆那教崇拜仪式所阐释的仪式理论
DOI：
10.2307/605660
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发表时间：
1994
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通讯作者：
James Laidlaw
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作者：
Frederick M. Smith;C. Humphrey;James Laidlaw
宗教仪式可能会在那些实践它们的人身上激起深深的矛盾反应。在宗教传统中，当仪式的本质受到质疑，但仪式本身并没有被抛弃时，会发生什么？这本书借鉴了作者对印度西部耆那教徒的这种反应的观察，并询问为什么他们可以告诉我们仪式是人类行为的普遍模式。大多数人类学家认为仪式是一种特殊的发生，需要一种特殊的解释。作者认为，“仪式”是一种原则上适用于任何类型的行动的品质。他们试图回答的问题是：仪式化的行为有什么独特之处？他们拒绝接受仪式具有内在意义的普遍观点，并探讨了一个明显的悖论，即仪式化使行动在重要意义上是非故意的，它本身是故意行为的结果--行为者采取了作者所说的“仪式承诺”。
Religious rituals can provoke a deeply ambigious reaction in those who practise them. What happens in religious traditions when the nature of the ritual is questioned, but the practice of performing rituals is not itself abandoned? This book draws on the authors' observations of such reactions among Jains in western India, and asks why they can tell us about ritual as a universal mode of human action. Most anthropologists have assumed that ritual is a special kind of happening, which requires a special kind of interpretation. The authors argue that 'ritual' is a quality which can in principle apply to any kind of action. The question they try to answer is: what is distinctive about actions which are ritualized? They reject the common view that ritual carries intrinsic meaning, and explore the apparent paradox that ritualization, which makes action in an important sense non-intentional, is itself the result of an intentional act - the adoption by the actor of what the authors call the 'ritual commitment'.