"Our Creator Who Art in Heaven:" Paradox, Ritual, and Cultural Transformation
By Medlock-Klyukovski, Amanda
Publication: Western Journal of Communication
Date: Friday, October 1 2004
Publication: Western Journal of Communication
Date: Friday, October 1 2004
HEADNOTE
official ritual is one way in which individuals may negotiate the paradoxes of their culture and accomplish cultural transformation. Analysis of qualitative data from three communities of Benedictine women reveals that by adapting ritual members resist church-imposed identities of women as rightly excluded, subordinate, and disempowered. By resisting these identities, sisters reinforce the transformation of their own culture; and by doing so in the presence of outsiders, they make an argument for the transformation of the larger culture of the church.
Contemporary organizations are typically marked by conflicting interests and contradictory demands on individuals. It is important to understand how these tensions are managed in everyday ways. Ritual, and the adaptation of
To go from this community to the Catholic church and think about what the differences are-to feel the kind of schizophrenia, is the only way I can describe it, that comes from trying to be a faithful member of both. (Sister Melinda).
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