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Thesis--University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. 94-96.

Thesis--University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. 94-96.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 82 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82).

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abstract: This dissertation explores the history of ancestral rituals and the related political controversy in the Song China (960-1279). Considering the pivotal role played by ancestral rites in shaping Chinese identity and consciousness, this study contributes to a better understanding of how ancestral ritual has been politicized in Chinese history as a specific cultural apparatus to manipulate politics through theatrical performance and liturgical discussion. Through a contextual analysis of a variety of Song scholar-officials and their ritual writings, including memorials, private letters, and commentaries on the ritual Classics, this study demonstrates that Song ritual debates over the zhaomu 昭穆 sequence--that is, the positioning of ancestral temples and spirit tablets in ancestral temples with preparation for alternation or removal--differentiated scholar-officials into separate factions of revivalists, conventionalists and centrists. From a new perspective of ritual politics, this study reveals the discursiveness of the New Learning (xinxue新學) community and its profound influence on the Learning of the Way (Daoxue 道學) fellowship of the Southern Song (1127-1279). It examines the evolution of the New Learning fellowship as a dynamic process that involved internal tension and differentiation. Daoxue ritualism was a continuation of this process in partaking in the revivalist approach of ritual that was initiated by the New Learning circle. Nowadays, the proliferation of ritual and Classical studies crystallizes the revitalization of Confucianism and Confucian rituals in China. Taking zhaomu as a point of departure, this project provides a lens through which modern scholars can explore the persistent tension between knowledge and power by rethinking the modernization of ritual and ritual politics in contemporary China. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History 2015

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:14:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Priscila Goncalves Magossi.pdf: 716112 bytes, checksum: 337ee12bdc36f30f14b1df7299f8d86e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-12 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research paper discusses the relationships between communication, ritualism and digital culture. Within this broad thematic spectrum, the object of study focuses on the specific boundaries of the organization of daily rituals in cyberspace. Indeed, the theoretical and practical elements of this research call for more careful definitions. According to this analysis, the concept of ritualism refers to a standard of concrete actions undertaken in particular situations for a given purpose. Digital culture, in turn, is marked by postmodern culture, which is characterized by mediatic visibility and organized by a glocal context (i.e., neither local nor global, but rather, a hybrid context with its own magnitude). Sociomediatic processes today are characterized mainly by the logic of excess and fragmentation, by the absence of purpose, and by structural uncertainty. Cyberspace, on the other hand, is seen as a virtual territory where information is transmitted in real time. This territory is comprised of a set of telecommunication networks that are managed by the information digitizing process. Based on these theoretical elements, this research paper addresses the question of how daily rituals are organized in cyberspace. The primary hypothesis is that contemporary humans engage in ritualization on a collective scale, which is developed in cyberspace. It is believed that postmodern times give rise to a group of fragmented rituals that play the role of organizing and instigating ways of thinking in order to create or maintain identities and generate visibility. The objective, therefore, is to understand how the processes of communication and ritualization are established in cyberspace. To this end, the corpus of this research focuses on the social networks Facebook and Twitter. The methodological procedures involve a bibliographic and/or documentary research allied to a critical review of processes, in line with the exclusively theoretical approach of this research (eventual complementary methodological instruments will be defined in a context-oriented analysis). The thematic link between communication, ritualism, digital culture and cyberspace will be established based on the theoretical framework of the theories of communication, postmodernism, media, virtual culture and the imaginary, put forward by authors such as Anderson, Baudrillard, Bauman, Contrera, Eliade, Harvey, Morin, Peirano, Recuero and Trivinho. With these characteristics, this essay intends to contribute to the study of communication and cyberculture, from a necessarily tensional point of view, i.e., more exacting and comprehensive, within the aforementioned thematic field / A presente pesquisa versa sobre as relações entre comunicação, ritualidades e cultura digital. Nesse quadro temático, o objeto de estudo coincide com o recorte específico dos rituais cotidianos no ciberespaço. Com efeito, os elementos teóricos e práticos da pesquisa pressupõem definições mais cuidadosas. O conceito de ritualidade refere-se ao padrão de ações concretas, empreendidas em ocasiões particulares, para determinada finalidade. A cultura digital, por sua vez, é marcada pela cultura pós-moderna, caracterizada pela visibilidade mediática e articulada pelo contexto glocal (a saber, nem local, nem global, antes vertente híbrida de grandeza própria). Os traços prioritários dos processos sociomediáticos contemporâneos referem-se à lógica do excesso e da fragmentação, à ausência de finalidade e à incerteza estrutural. Já o ciberespaço é compreendido como território virtual de deslizamento de signos em tempo real, resultante do processo de digitalização da informação, esteio do capitalismo atual. Com base em tais elementos teóricos e práticos, o problema de pesquisa diz respeito justamente à questão sobre como os rituais cotidianos são estruturados nessa ou por vinculação a essa rede digital. A hipótese principal é a de que essas ritualizações fragmentárias são provenientes de; e confirmam um processo psicossocial (individual ou coletivo) de representação, motivação, organização e visibilidade, que se traduz nos modos de sentir, pensar e agir do sujeito na vida cotidiana. Objetiva-se, portanto, investigar de que maneira os rituais se estabelecem no ciberespaço. Para tanto, o corpus da pesquisa privilegiará as redes sociais Facebook e Twitter. Os procedimentos metodológicos envolvem pesquisa bibliográfica e/ou documental, com acompanhamento e reflexão crítica de processos, em atendimento ao perfil exclusivamente teórico da pesquisa. A articulação temática entre comunicação, ritualidades, cultura digital e ciberespaço foi cumprida com base no referencial epistemológico das teorias da comunicação, da mídia, do pós-moderno, da cultura virtual e do imaginário. Entre os autores vislumbrados destacam-se Anderson, Baudrillard, Bauman, Contrera, Eliade, Harvey, Morin, Peirano, Recuero e Trivinho. Com essas características, a relevância da pesquisa justifica-se pela contribuição ao campo de estudo da comunicação e da cibercultura, a partir de um ponto de vista necessariamente tensional, vale dizer, mais criterioso e profundo, dentro do mencionado ramo temático

MAAS / Department of African Studies / This study analysed the consequences of the on-going transitional rites on youth morality in the Thulamela Municipality, South Africa, using a qualitative descriptive design. The participants were sampled using a non-random sampling procedure, specifically, a purposive sampling technique and snowball sampling technique. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from the Indigenous Knowledge (IK) custodians, the parents of the youths and the youths until point of saturation. The analysis was performed using a thematic content method. With the emergence of themes and sub-themes, broad categories were generated to differentiate and explain the thoughts expressed by the various respondents and the observations made in the field. The study findings suggest that the on-going transitional rites is mark by weekend’s social activities with the practice of substance use and abuse among the youth’s in recreational spot. The transitional rites are structured under guise of “freaks” as an evolve culture among the youths. The freaks culture is a counterculture of the usual initiation’s schools for transitional rites of passage which instil morality among youths. The emerged findings comprehensively show that the on-going transitional rites effect inappropriate youth morality. This study concluded that the on-going transitional rites activities and practices evolved as a current socialization standard for quick maturity status, as a result of that, it will be harder to provide a complete change of this evolving culture. However, what will work is to build on the exciting transitional rites of passage to moderate appropriate youths’ morality in Thulamela communities. / NRF