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Rites for Modern Man: New Practices in Sweden

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Author

Editor

  • Lina Midholm
  • Annika Nordström
  • Maria T. Agozzino

Summary, in English

This article offers a new perspective on the use of ritual and tradition in contemporary Sweden. Urbanization, immigration, cultural pluralism, the capitalist market system, changing conditions for women, the influence of mass media, and individualism are all characteristic of the social condition of modernity that have radically changed the context of ritual and transformed traditional patterns. New rituals or ritualized practices have emerged that respond to these contemporary societal structures. It presents some of these practices, discusses different categories of new ritual mastery and investigates the increasing demand from the participants for efficacy and personal meaning in rituals. Finally, it raises the delicate question whether it is justifiable, or even desirable, to maintain a critical stance to these features of modernity.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

83-92

Publication/Series

The Ritual Year and Ritual Diversity: Proceedings of the second International Conference of the SIEF Working Group on the Ritual Year, Gothenburg June 7-11, 2006

Document type

Book chapter

Topic

  • History of Religions

Keywords

  • Rituals
  • modernity
  • commodification of rites

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-7229-039-6