Feeling into Atmospheres: Druids and the Aesthetics of Ritual

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Feeling into Atmospheres: Druids and the Aesthetics of Ritual

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Rituals are one of the key spiritual practices of contemporary Druidry. While beliefs among Druids can be rather eclectic, rituals create a common ground of experience and shape a shared identity. Given that there is hardly any historical or archaeological evidence for what ancient druidic rituals were like, contemporary Druids creatively imagine and enact rituals of their own design—inspired by ancient myths, monuments, places, or natural dynamics (the seasons in particular). They perform larger public ceremonies and more intimate rituals, indoors and outdoors, as a group or alone, and value ‘feeling’ over ‘form’. What rituals have in common is that they are considered transformative and that this transformation should be felt by participants. A ‘good ritual’ is one that resonates in various ways and as a whole with its initial inspiration (e.g. the ‘spirit’ of place, time, and the Druidic tribe). Through ritual participation, then, Druids are transformed to resonate with the ritual and its inspiration. This is achieved, so I argue, through a bodily, sensual, and affective ‘feeling-into’ ritual atmospheres. In this way, the regular participation in rituals can be seen as an education of a particular sensibility and aesthetics which enable Druids to perceive and engage with the sacred within rituals but ultimately also in everyday life.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Feeling into Atmospheres: Druids and the Aesthetics of Ritual

Popis výsledku anglicky

Rituals are one of the key spiritual practices of contemporary Druidry. While beliefs among Druids can be rather eclectic, rituals create a common ground of experience and shape a shared identity. Given that there is hardly any historical or archaeological evidence for what ancient druidic rituals were like, contemporary Druids creatively imagine and enact rituals of their own design—inspired by ancient myths, monuments, places, or natural dynamics (the seasons in particular). They perform larger public ceremonies and more intimate rituals, indoors and outdoors, as a group or alone, and value ‘feeling’ over ‘form’. What rituals have in common is that they are considered transformative and that this transformation should be felt by participants. A ‘good ritual’ is one that resonates in various ways and as a whole with its initial inspiration (e.g. the ‘spirit’ of place, time, and the Druidic tribe). Through ritual participation, then, Druids are transformed to resonate with the ritual and its inspiration. This is achieved, so I argue, through a bodily, sensual, and affective ‘feeling-into’ ritual atmospheres. In this way, the regular participation in rituals can be seen as an education of a particular sensibility and aesthetics which enable Druids to perceive and engage with the sacred within rituals but ultimately also in everyday life.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Modern Religious Druidry: Studies in Paganism, Celtic Identity, and Nature Spirituality

ISBN

978-3-031-63098-9

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

51-71

Počet stran knihy

241

Název nakladatele

Palgrave Macmillan

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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