Tag: Ritual
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‘Now I Am Become Death…’ | Theology of Decay | Rituals [1]
Micah Redding has an interesting post bouncing off some of the thoughts I’ve posted here, which reflects on baptism, and whether this represents a ‘ritual to signify the end of rituals.’ My immediate thought was of the lines from the Bhagavad-Gita, made famous by J Robert Oppenheimer in an interview in which he recorded his thoughts…
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Insert Coin [3] | Final Fantasy
[Level 1] [Level 2] Emerging Church: Game or Ritual? As The Believer points out, one aspect of games such as Dungeons and Dragons is that of fantasy. When you enter a game, you are entering ‘role play’ – becoming someone else. Becoming a fantasy self. This is something I have critiqued in more detail here.…
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Insert Coin [2] | Weapons::Rules::Power
[First Level] Game or Ritual? This was the key question addressed in Level One. Lévi-Strauss made the distinction between Games (“they end in the establishment of a difference between players or teams where originally there was no indication of inequality”) and Rituals (“it brings about a union, or in any case, an organic relation between…
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Insert Coin | Is Church a Game?
The ever-brilliant Believer Magazine took ‘Games’ as its theme for the September issue. It’s left me with some thoughts I want to share, probably over the course of a few posts. One of the main articles, by Paul La Farge, was an exploration of Dungeons and Dragons, which, in typical Believer style, meant a gorgeous…