An Occult Royal Wedding: Public State Ceremonies as Rituals of Civil Irreligion
This article explores the contested nature of the meaning of state ceremonies, focussing on alternative accounts of the United Kingdom's 2011 Royal Wedding between William Windsor and Kate Middleton. Although state ceremonies are ostensibly secular affairs, utilizing religious symbolism for pur...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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[2018]
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Implicit religion
Ano: 2018, Volume: 21, Número: 2, Páginas: 165-179 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
William, Wales, Prinz 1982-
/ Catherine, Wales, Prinzessin 1982-
/ Celebração do casamento
/ Großbritannien
/ Religião civil
/ Símbolo
/ Religião
/ Icke, David 1952-
/ Teoria de conspiração
/ Ocultismo
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AD Sociologia da religião KBF Ilhas Britânicas KDE Igreja anglicana ZB Sociologia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Occulture
B David Icke B Conspiracy Theory B British royal family B RITES & ceremonies B Civil Religion B Ritual B Weddings |
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| Resumo: | This article explores the contested nature of the meaning of state ceremonies, focussing on alternative accounts of the United Kingdom's 2011 Royal Wedding between William Windsor and Kate Middleton. Although state ceremonies are ostensibly secular affairs, utilizing religious symbolism for purely ceremonial reasons, there are those who think differently. David Icke perceives a hidden, satanic symbolism and deploys various interpretive strategies including the numerology of time, symbology of ceremonial objects, and genealogy of participants. Building on Bellah's concept of "civil religion," this article looks at competing expressivist and instrumentalist analyses alongside the interpretive strategies of Icke, and other 'truth-seeker' bloggers, for whom the Royal Wedding, alongside other state rituals, functions as a nefarious ritual of civil irreligion. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.37774 |
