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The change of ritual year and the life-cycle rituals during the 20-21st centuries 
Convenors:
Dalia Senvaitytė (Vytautas Magnus University)
Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė (Vytautas Magnus University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
TEMPORALITIES
:
Room K-205
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The panel welcomes innovative papers addressing the following themes: rethinking the methodological and theoretical approaches of ritual year and the life cycle rituals, their change, and the reasons for this transformation.

Long Abstract:

The contemporary, "overheated world" of rapid change (according to T. Eriksen) has a great impact on the multidimensional social change of our society, as well as on the ritual year and the life-cycle rituals. The changing process of rituals leads to new kinds of paradoxes and complexities that it is necessary to examine. Transformations of rituals could be determined by "competing perspectives, ideologies, and persuasions concerning the relationship of the individual to the group, the past to the present, tradition to change, purity to mixing" (Eriksen, Schober 2016).

The panel invites the discussion on the following or related topics addressed to the different issues as a change of lifestyle (for example, change of technologies, digitalization, current pandemic situation, etc.), the impact of political propaganda and legitimization, media, religious shift, business and commerce, science and education, impact by specific social and cultural institutions, groups, organizations, or individuals.

Accordingly, all festivities and their rituals could be analyzed by the processes of:

• remembering (e.g., historical memory, heritage making);

• re-creating;

• renovating, re-inventing, re-constructing (including historical re-construction);

• re-telling;

• regulating;

• re-searching (e.g., research of used data, evaluation of previous studies, etc.);

• re-education.

The North European region has similarities as well as particular variations in the processes that could be analyzed specifically and in a comparative approach.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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