Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and its Significance for Ritual Theory by Axel Michaels

Abstract

This contribution offers a review of Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and its Significance for Ritual Theory by Axel Michaels (2016).

Durga Is Also Living in Sweden

“…In the present text, I will attend to the interplay of these concerns on ritual competence with performance. Axel Michaels (2016) characterises Hindu festivals, like Durga Puja, mainly as a mode of social action (societas), centred on community, producing group coordination and solidarity. Below, I will show that this also is the case in the Swedish staging of the festival.…”