Introduction: Social Movements: Ritual, Space and Media

Hurd, Madeleine

doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146287

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“…The media functioned as ritual amplifiers rather than passive message conduits. The media gather, select, reject, and recount narratives of ritual modification, frequently generating “the myth of a common focus, [as] a center of concern” ( Hurd 2014 , p. 298). In this way, the media also legitimize ritual revision.…”

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Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kapoor¹,

Belk²,

Goulding³

2022

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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Rituals, particularly religious rituals, may play a significant role in times of crises. Often, these rituals undergo revision in order to adapt to the changing needs of the time. In this paper, we investigate recent unofficially revised Hindu religious rituals as performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The multifarious creative interplay between Hindu tradition and change is illustrated through four cases – the religious festival of Durga Puja, the devotional songs or bhajans, the ritual of lighting lamps or diyas, and the fire rituals or havans. We offer a systematic discourse analysis of online news articles and YouTube posts that illuminate several aspects of ritual revision during unsettled times. We focus on the changes that were made to ritual elements – who was in control of these alterations, how were these modifications made, and what potential benefits did these revisions offer to the community of ritual participants. Based on our findings, we highlight public policy implications regarding the involvement of diverse social actors, the creation of faith in science, the creation of feelings of unity and agency, and the amplification of local ritual modifications on a national scale.

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Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kapoor¹,

Belk²,

Goulding³

2022

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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“…Emotional packages consisting of affection, excitement, pride, joys and/or sorrows help to motivate participants as well as win public sympathy (Eyerman 2005;Goodwin and Jasper, 2006). Emotions underpin collective identities; which can be shared among activists and promote solidarity (Hurd, 2014). They sometimes speak more loudly than words and impress bystanders in the society at large.…”

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“…They provide the action 'with narratives […] [which] embodied collective remembering […] [t]his moral-social identity implies both a shared past and a hopeful future' (Hurd, 2014). Furthermore, rituals in social movements affirm the identities and beliefs of participants.…”

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Prostrating Walk in the Campaign against Sino-Hong Kong Express Railway: Collective Identity of Native Social Movement

Chan

2017

CCS Journal

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Occupation, blockage and storming are not rare in social movements a decade after China resuming sovereignty in Hong Kong. The organizers and participants usually involve locally born young people. Some of them are secondary school students in their teens. They are known as the fourth generation or post-1980s born Hongkongers. The paper examines the cultural context of social movements involving these youth activists. It mainly studied the campaign against the Sino-Hong Kong Express Railway development project. The project called for the demolition of the Tsoi Yuen Village, a small rural village located on its designed route. Since then, the role of younger generation in social movements has been generally recognized. Social media are widely employed in all stages of the movements with citizen journalists actively involved. The impressive ‘prostrating walk’ imitating Tibetan pilgrims becomes the symbol of these youth activists. It keeps appearing in other campaigns including Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014. This paper argues that the rise of nativism, advancement in ICT technology and shifting towards new social movements contribute to the dominant role of youth in recent social movements of Hong Kong. Collective identity of Hongkonger in response to the top-down assimilation by China, strengthens the movement.

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Visual bodies, ritualised performances: an offline-online analysis of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in Finland and Portugal

Malafaia,

Kettunen,

Luhtakallio

2024

Visual Studies

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Introduction: Social Movements: Ritual, Space and Media

Abstract: Social movements studies: Examining and understanding the mobilization, life and effects of sets of loosely organized networks that share a solidaristic identity based on counter-hegemonic narratives and values, launching public protests on behalf of "alternative imaginaries".

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Prostrating Walk in the Campaign against Sino-Hong Kong Express Railway: Collective Identity of Native Social Movement

Visual bodies, ritualised performances: an offline-online analysis of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in Finland and Portugal

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