...are experienced rather than merely thought about when used in rituals. Geertz puts it this way: "In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of symbol forms, turn out to be the same world (1965:23). Because symbols are set in a ritual context,...

...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world. . . . 35 Ritual not only structures our perceptions and suggests certain...

...BENFORD and LESTER R. KURTZ* Chapter 5 Performing the Nuclear Ceremony: The Arms Race as a Ritual In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world. —Clifford Geertz1 When humans are faced with difficult situations, crises, or uncontrollable...

...pray. The aesthetic aspects of ritual enable people to enter the altered world created by ritual, where "the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world" (Geertz 1973b, 112). Doing is believing. Seeing one's fellow "doing"...

...religious conceptions are veridical and that religious directives are sound is somehow generated. ... In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world. . . . Whatever role divine intervention may or may not play in the creation of faith — and...

...concept of nature, self and society . . . their comprehensive ideas of order." 8 As he puts it elsewhere, "In ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world." 9 Geertz seems to be making an important point about ritual, stressing its capacity to shape...

...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense of reality...

...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of forms, turns out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense...

...the nature of existence are fused with one's actual experiences of the realities of existence: "in a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world."13 A similar formulation of the workings of ritual as a symbolic system...

...the participant, both as an individual and as a member of a community, to an exemplary order so that "the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world." 9 Those who participate in an effective ceremony thus temporarily leave...