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Title: Ritual Change and Social Transformation in Migrant Societies
Author : Hans-Georg Soeffner & Darius Zifonun
Release Date : January 25, 2016
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 6965 KB

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Migration involves change of geographical place, social relations and cultural habits. This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars including studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. In situations of change, individuals as well as social groups mobilize rituals to reaffirm a sense of identity. Usually thinking of rituals as fixed sets of symbolic behaviour, hand ed down through generations, migration forces a fresh look at rituals: that they are open to change and adjustment as well as means of social transformation. The authors show the challenge of the transformation of symbolic behaviour for those who expe rience spatial and social change. They emphasise that ritual change is also common when cultures become intercultural.