Talk:Ritualization

Dialectics

It is said that the dialectic debate you have to study in order to achieve the Geshe degree is a ritualized debate. What does this mean in that context? What does the ritual consist of? How does it work?

Austerlitz -- 83.236.19.6 (talk) 07:22, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Two different subjects

It seems like this is about two different subjects and should be split in two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MathHisSci (talk • contribs) 18:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To me it seems that whatever this article is trying to say about Catherine Bell is confusing. Whatever it is trying to say about Pascal Boyer is misleading, in that Boyer uses (and emphasizes that he uses) the term "ritualized behavior" in his studies. He claims that some cultural ceremonies and rituals might express ritualized behavior, but not all. What about Bell? It is more difficult to say, from the description on the Wikipedia page on Bell, it seems that the term "ritualization" (when she uses it) is some kind of deliberate political act where a person or a group decides to make something into a public ceremony/ritual for political/ideological reasons. If this is the case, then surely they do not refer to the same phenomenon.

What should be done about this? The easiest solution might be to delete this article and recreate new ones with proper titles and all.

2001:708:110:201:D548:D059:787D:C550 (talk) 09:36, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]