New Rituals-Old Societies by Nissan Rubin - 9781934843352

New Rituals-Old SocietiesInvented Rituals in Contemporary Israel\nAuthor(s): Nissan Rubin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9781934843352, 978-1934843352\nSynopsis\nRituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New Rituals - Old Societies examines rituals which were invented by individuals and communities in order to celebrate important turning points. In contemporary Israel a process of innovation of new rituals was introduced, either by the adoption of ritual elements from outside sources or by the transformation of existing Jewish symbols through the infusion of new contents originating in secular ideology. The term \""personal definitional rites\"" coined here refer.