Liturgical music at Roman-Catholic funerals has a very diverse character in contemporary Western society, especially in a strongly secularized country like the Netherlands. The spectrum covers the favorite music of the deceased as well as traditional chants. But how is it possible that people still frequently opt for the Requiem, even outside the classical liturgical context? In this article, we explore the concepts of experience and meaning with regard to the Requiemmass. Which kind of experience belongs to this type of liturgical chant? And which meaning is ascribed to it? Using the resonance-theory of Hartmut Rosa, we distinguish a liturgical horizontal dimension (shared experience) and a vertical dimension (religious meaning). Diagonal resonance refers to the liturgical elements of singing. By referring to striking examples from the history of Christian worship, we show that experience and meaning of liturgical chant always depended on its context. It changed; meaning differed from experience and covered it again. For contemporary liturgical practice it would therefore be too simple to only speak about an experiential dimension of the Requiem and no longer about its meaning. The aim must be to combine a personalized meaning with the tradition of ecclesial liturgy.
{"title":"Requiem. Resonanzen katholischer Totenliturgie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart","authors":"T. Quartier","doi":"10.21827/5BFEAAC93D24C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5BFEAAC93D24C","url":null,"abstract":"Liturgical music at Roman-Catholic funerals has a very diverse character in contemporary Western society, especially in a strongly secularized country like the Netherlands. The spectrum covers the favorite music of the deceased as well as traditional chants. But how is it possible that people still frequently opt for the Requiem, even outside the classical liturgical context? In this article, we explore the concepts of experience and meaning with regard to the Requiemmass. Which kind of experience belongs to this type of liturgical chant? And which meaning is ascribed to it? Using the resonance-theory of Hartmut Rosa, we distinguish a liturgical horizontal dimension (shared experience) and a vertical dimension (religious meaning). Diagonal resonance refers to the liturgical elements of singing. By referring to striking examples from the history of Christian worship, we show that experience and meaning of liturgical chant always depended on its context. It changed; meaning differed from experience and covered it again. For contemporary liturgical practice it would therefore be too simple to only speak about an experiential dimension of the Requiem and no longer about its meaning. The aim must be to combine a personalized meaning with the tradition of ecclesial liturgy.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129192274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samenvatting van: A. Kjaersgaard: Funerary Culture and the Limits of Secularization in Denmark. Date of defence: November 17, 2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
A. Kjaersgaard:丹麦的丧葬文化与世俗化的极限。答辩日期:2017年11月17日,荷兰奈梅亨内梅亨大学。
{"title":"Funeraire cultuur en de grenzen van de secularisatie in Denemarken","authors":"Anne Kjærsgaard","doi":"10.21827/5a2e42d6b3031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5a2e42d6b3031","url":null,"abstract":"Samenvatting van: A. Kjaersgaard: Funerary Culture and the Limits of Secularization in Denmark. Date of defence: November 17, 2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115256735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article addresses the research question: “How do Islamic women of Moroccan descent use prayer in dealing with problems?” The theoretical framework was mainly based on the work of Pargament, Koenig & Perez, regarding religious coping.1 The empirical part of the study consists of a quantitative and a qualitative part. This article presents the results of the quantitative part. For the quantitative part of our research 177 questionnaires were collected by use of snowball sampling. We questioned their praying practices and their ways of religious coping using the Brief RCOPE. The connection and communication with a loving, caring, benevolent God through prayer, is the main religious way these Islamic women of Moroccan descent cope with their problems. This use of prayer as a way of coping can be clarified by the psychological functions of religiosity and prayer that are suggested by Pargament et al.2 Prayer can help: (1) finding meaning, (2) being master over their circumstances and controlling their emotions, (3) finding comfort and closeness to God, (4) experiencing intimacy with others and closeness to God and (5) transforming their way of life. We did not find any negative religious coping strategies such as negative feelings towards God or alienation. This is in line with research results of Abu Raiya & Pargament.3 As Islam implies surrender to God, it is difficult for Muslims to admit their religious distress, doubts and struggles.
{"title":"Bidden als vorm van religieuze coping bij moslima’s van Marokkaanse afkomst","authors":"L. V. D. Valk, J. Pieper, R. V. Uden","doi":"10.21827/5a2e428f5f36b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5a2e428f5f36b","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the research question: “How do Islamic women of Moroccan descent use prayer in dealing with problems?” The theoretical framework was mainly based on the work of Pargament, Koenig & Perez, regarding religious coping.1 The empirical part of the study consists of a quantitative and a qualitative part. This article presents the results of the quantitative part. For the quantitative part of our research 177 questionnaires were collected by use of snowball sampling. We questioned their praying practices and their ways of religious coping using the Brief RCOPE. The connection and communication with a loving, caring, benevolent God through prayer, is the main religious way these Islamic women of Moroccan descent cope with their problems. This use of prayer as a way of coping can be clarified by the psychological functions of religiosity and prayer that are suggested by Pargament et al.2 Prayer can help: (1) finding meaning, (2) being master over their circumstances and controlling their emotions, (3) finding comfort and closeness to God, (4) experiencing intimacy with others and closeness to God and (5) transforming their way of life. We did not find any negative religious coping strategies such as negative feelings towards God or alienation. This is in line with research results of Abu Raiya & Pargament.3 As Islam implies surrender to God, it is difficult for Muslims to admit their religious distress, doubts and struggles.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129037180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inspired by Ronald Grimes’ book The Craft of Ritual Studies, this article presents a Ritual Studies research design, developed in projects and programs at the Tilburg research group Ritual in Society. This research design describes the applied or planned research process, its various stages and steps, and perspectives when it comes to theory and method(s). Several ‘best practices’ will illustrate the various stages of the research design, followed by an overview of specific characteristics in historiographic perspective, in reference to a series of research programs and projects.
{"title":"Een Ritual Studies Onderzoeksdesign. Ervaringen en perspectieven","authors":"P. Post, L. Faro","doi":"10.21827/5a2e425c0ad55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5a2e425c0ad55","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by Ronald Grimes’ book The Craft of Ritual Studies, this article presents a Ritual Studies research design, developed in projects and programs at the Tilburg research group Ritual in Society. This research design describes the applied or planned research process, its various stages and steps, and perspectives when it comes to theory and method(s). Several ‘best practices’ will illustrate the various stages of the research design, followed by an overview of specific characteristics in historiographic perspective, in reference to a series of research programs and projects.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123428157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Was bedeutet Sakramentalitat im monastischen Leben? In diesem Beitrag nahern wir uns dieser Frage anhand von Konzepten, die aus der liturgischen und der monastischen Theologie stammen. Sie dienen einer ‘Wiederentdeckung’ von Sakramentalitat in der monastischen Lebensform und Liturgie. Um die theologische Konzepte mit der heutigen monastischen Praxis zu verbinden, haben wir Dialoge gefuhrt, in denen Monche nach ihren Erfahrungen gefragt wurden. Diese fanden im Rahmen eines Seminars mit internationalen Teilnehmern statt, in dem der Begriff Sakrament theoretisch und experientiell vertieft wurde. Der Feldforschung liegen zwolf Interviews (kollegiale Interviews) und vier Gruppengesprache (Collatio) zugrunde. Es zeigte sich, dass die monastische Lebensform durch die Bereiche Arbeiten, Lernen und Wohnen sakramental verstanden werden kann. Sie ist verantwortlich, offen und frei. Weiterhin hat die monastische Liturgie sakramentale Dimensionen durch die Bereiche Kirche, Tradition und Schopfung. Die theologische Reflexion tragt zu einer existenziellen Wiederentdeckung von Sakramentalitat in Lebensform und Liturgie bei.
{"title":"Sakramentalität der Lebensform. Monastische und Liturgische Theologie in der Praxis des Klosterlebens","authors":"T. Quartier","doi":"10.21827/5A2E428229C6D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5A2E428229C6D","url":null,"abstract":"Was bedeutet Sakramentalitat im monastischen Leben? In diesem Beitrag nahern wir uns dieser Frage anhand von Konzepten, die aus der liturgischen und der monastischen Theologie stammen. Sie dienen einer ‘Wiederentdeckung’ von Sakramentalitat in der monastischen Lebensform und Liturgie. Um die theologische Konzepte mit der heutigen monastischen Praxis zu verbinden, haben wir Dialoge gefuhrt, in denen Monche nach ihren Erfahrungen gefragt wurden. Diese fanden im Rahmen eines Seminars mit internationalen Teilnehmern statt, in dem der Begriff Sakrament theoretisch und experientiell vertieft wurde. Der Feldforschung liegen zwolf Interviews (kollegiale Interviews) und vier Gruppengesprache (Collatio) zugrunde. Es zeigte sich, dass die monastische Lebensform durch die Bereiche Arbeiten, Lernen und Wohnen sakramental verstanden werden kann. Sie ist verantwortlich, offen und frei. Weiterhin hat die monastische Liturgie sakramentale Dimensionen durch die Bereiche Kirche, Tradition und Schopfung. Die theologische Reflexion tragt zu einer existenziellen Wiederentdeckung von Sakramentalitat in Lebensform und Liturgie bei.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114238827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aspects of imagined ritual reversal in regard to ancient ideas about eating are the topic of this paper. It will particularly focus on the opposition of satisfied and starving human bodies, both in early Jewish texts that deal with this world and in texts that discuss circumstances in the World to Come. The aim is to investigate both the ritual theories that might be applied to these texts and the human characteristics that, according to the texts discussed, would lead human bodies either to starvation or satisfaction.
{"title":"Full Belly versus Starving Body. Ritual Reversal and the Human Body in Biblical and Early Jewish Texts","authors":"Claudia D. Bergmann","doi":"10.21827/5A2E426B6822A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5A2E426B6822A","url":null,"abstract":"Aspects of imagined ritual reversal in regard to ancient ideas about eating are the topic of this paper. It will particularly focus on the opposition of satisfied and starving human bodies, both in early Jewish texts that deal with this world and in texts that discuss circumstances in the World to Come. The aim is to investigate both the ritual theories that might be applied to these texts and the human characteristics that, according to the texts discussed, would lead human bodies either to starvation or satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"350 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115465537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samenvatting van: B.M.H.P. Mathijssen: Making Sense of Death. Ritual Practices and Situational Beliefs of the Recently Bereaved in the Netherlands. Date of defense: June 28, 2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
{"title":"Zin- en vormgeven aan de dood. Rituele praktijken en situationele geloofsvoorstellingen van nabestaanden in Nederland","authors":"B.M.H.P. Mathijssen","doi":"10.21827/5A2E429A7419D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5A2E429A7419D","url":null,"abstract":"Samenvatting van: B.M.H.P. Mathijssen: Making Sense of Death. Ritual Practices and Situational Beliefs of the Recently Bereaved in the Netherlands. Date of defense: June 28, 2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121057207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There’s something remarkable going on in the Netherlands. In increasingly more places there are choral evensongs following the model of the Anglican cathedrals. Dutch boys’ choirs and mixed choirs, dressed in traditional English red choir vestments with white collars, sing a complete traditional English litur-gy: English hymns, preces and responses, psalms, canticles and an anthem, and there are also English lessons and spoken prayers. The evensongs, often performed in monumental churches, attract many people. 1 In some places, partici-pants have to buy an admission fee to attend the evensong. The phenomenon raises many questions. What exactly is going on here? Is this evensong a con-cert, liturgy, theatre, or all of them at the same time? What are the reasons for its popularity? Why do visitors go to the evensong? Do these visitors also go to regular church services? What does the popularity of the choral evensong mean against the background of secularization?
{"title":"‘My Soul Doth Magnify’. The Appropriation of the Anglican Choral Evensong in the Dutch Context","authors":"H. Rijken, M. Hoondert, M. Barnard","doi":"10.21827/5A2E42B35677C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5A2E42B35677C","url":null,"abstract":"There’s something remarkable going on in the Netherlands. In increasingly more places there are choral evensongs following the model of the Anglican cathedrals. Dutch boys’ choirs and mixed choirs, dressed in traditional English red choir vestments with white collars, sing a complete traditional English litur-gy: English hymns, preces and responses, psalms, canticles and an anthem, and there are also English lessons and spoken prayers. The evensongs, often performed in monumental churches, attract many people. 1 In some places, partici-pants have to buy an admission fee to attend the evensong. The phenomenon raises many questions. What exactly is going on here? Is this evensong a con-cert, liturgy, theatre, or all of them at the same time? What are the reasons for its popularity? Why do visitors go to the evensong? Do these visitors also go to regular church services? What does the popularity of the choral evensong mean against the background of secularization?","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126119317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}