RT Article
T1 An Occult Royal Wedding: Public State Ceremonies as Rituals of Civil Irreligion
JF Implicit religion
VO 21
IS 2
SP 165
OP 179
A1 Toseland, Nicholas R. E.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663094306
AB 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.
K1 British royal family
K1 David Icke
K1 RITES & ceremonies
K1 Weddings
K1 Civil Religion
K1 Conspiracy Theory
K1 Occulture
K1 Ritual
DO 10.1558/imre.37774