My experiences with rituals comes mostly in schools and sports. In sports,
rituals are very important for both teams and individual competitors. I
did a google search on athletic rituals and found that it's been a research
topic. Some are not so nice (e.g., hazing athletes as an initiation rite). See
http://web.whittier.edu/people/webpages/personalwebpages/jprice/REL241Sport%20PlayRitual.pdf
http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol7Iss4/PrayerinSports.htm
http://www.thesportjournal.org/2006Journal/Vol9-No1/Peluso.asp
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/2003-12-09-hazing_x.htm
Peter
At 12:03 PM 2/24/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Xmca-o-phytes---
>
>A graduate student of mine is studying a Carribean ritual and asks about
>literature
>on CHAT/Socio-cultural approaches to analysing rituals as mediators of
>thought and
>action.
>
>What would you suggest that she read?
>mike
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