Rite Involvement and Community Formation
Questioning a modern assumption that community is a necessary predisposition to meaningful liturgical celebration, we hypothesized that liturgy can initiate community: liturgy ritualizes the primary group experience and can thereby awaken the need to generate community. Fifty-nine interviews were ga...
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| Language: | English |
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1969
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1969, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 91-107 |
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| Summary: | Questioning a modern assumption that community is a necessary predisposition to meaningful liturgical celebration, we hypothesized that liturgy can initiate community: liturgy ritualizes the primary group experience and can thereby awaken the need to generate community. Fifty-nine interviews were gathered from Parish A which had an historically active liturgy, seventy-nine interviews from Parish B, the control group. Comparisons were made on the basis of the Mann Whitney U test of like means. Although subhypotheses that the parishes did not differ in background factors could not be rejected, hypotheses that they did not differ in liturgical involvement and in community bond could be rejected. Since the difference in community bond in Parish A was not traceable to the usual sources, implication was that it was substantially influenced by liturgical participation.However, correlational comparisons did not verify that group ritual experience discovered the need for further group experience outside the liturgical context. Other factors, such as enjoyment of the ceremony and frequency of attendance, did seem related to the discovery of such need. Verifying research is called for since traditional explanations of community formation may be at stake. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709941 |