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Eerder hemels dan hels: Juryrapport Volzin-Schijfwedstrijd 2018
No full textSinds 2008 organiseert het tijdschrift VolZin een schrijfwedstrijd om lezers en anderen uit te dagen zich uit te spreken over een actueel thema dat raakt aan religie, spiritualiteit en samenleving. In 2018 werd de schrijfwedstrijd georganiseerd in samenwerking met de Universiteit van Tilburg. Het thema was: ‘Kunst & Religie: Hemels of Hels?’ De jury stond onder leiding van Martin Hoondert, die in dit artikel ingaat op het thema, de inzendingen en de drie prijswinnende essays
Ritual Indifference:Cremation Rituals in the Netherlands in the late 1960s–1980s
No full textThe indifference regarding cremation rituals in the 1960s–1980s is the topic of this chapter. In the first part of this chapter, I describe the building and design of crematoria in these decades, because this gives insight into the context in which the ritual took place. Keywords in the architectural design of crematoria were: efficiency, routing, logistics. Second, I explore the opinions about the cremation ritual by diachronically reading three magazines related to cremation and crematoria in the Netherlands: Crematienieuws (1963–1983), Journaal van de Vereniging voor Crematie AVVL (1973–1981), Ooit: uitgave van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Facultatieve Crematie (1984–2012). Besides these magazines, I make use of newspapers and some reports on cremation rituals related to the period 1960–1980. Third, I link the way cremation rituals took place in this period to views on dying, death and afterlife. Leading question in this last part of this chapter is: What was the reason for the impersonal and clinical design of the cremation ritual? Was it indifference regarding rituals, an expression of the so-called ‘denial of death’ or a sign of embarrassment regarding death and death rituals in a period in which the monopoly of churches on death rituals was vanishing
Vicarious Ritual:Requiem Concerts as Vicarious All Souls’ Day Ritual
No full textIn this chapter, I first describe the emergence of All Souls’ Day Requiem concerts in the Netherlands. Second, I show how this new ritual repertoire is linked to the traditional All Souls’ Day liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. Third, I describe two cultural dynamics which have led to the Requiem concert as a new and vicarious All Souls’ Day ritual. Fourth, I conclude this chapter with a reflection on this case study using the concepts of transformation and appropriation
Emerging Ritual:Divorce Ritual
No full textIn this chapter, which is based on literature research (both offline and online) and conversations with mediators and ritual counselors, I explore divorce rituals as a generally absent but emerging ritual. First, I review the literature regarding divorce rituals. Second, I go into the question why people hesitate to perform divorce rituals, notwithstanding the many models and possibilities for designing a ritual offered in literature and by ritual counselors
Non-healing Rituals and how to build a peaceful future:between Memory and Oblivion
No full textIn this chapter, I discuss the issue of the need and obligation to remember wars, human rights abuses and other atrocities, versus the, perhaps wholesome, possibility to forget. Commemorations, monuments and memorial museums often have an educational function. ‘To remember’ serves the frequently used slogan ‘never again’ and we have to learn lessons from the past to prevent future atrocities. This approach to memory and dealing with the past that focuses on future generations, is valuable. There are cases, however, in which commemorations do not serve a peaceful future, but again and again fuel the conflicts of the past and dehumanize perpetrators and generations to come. In some cases, monuments lead to aggression as they only relate dominant narratives about the past events, leaving out minority voices. Seen from the perspective of ritual criticism, we might ask: what cultural majority mechanisms tend to value remembering and memorialization more than implicit narration and intentional ‘forgetting’? And who decides how and by what means the past events will be remembered
Rund um die Pfarrei. Rituell-musikalische Bewegungen am Rande der Pfarrei. Gregorianischer Choral – Taizé – Jugendchör
No full textDuitse samenvatting van proefschrift: M. Hoondert: Om de parochie. Ritueel-muzikale bewegingen in de marge van de parochie. Gregoriaans – Taizé – Jongerenkoren (Heeswijk 2006). Promotion: Tilburg (Universiteit van Tilburg, Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen) 3. März 2006; promotoren: Prof.Dr. P. Post und Prof.Dr. A. Vernooij. Übersetzung: Dr. Dipl. Übers. Y. van den Akker-Savelsbergh.Duitse samenvatting van proefschrift: M. Hoondert: Om de parochie. Ritueel-muzikale bewegingen in de marge van de parochie. Gregoriaans – Taizé – Jongerenkoren (Heeswijk 2006). Promotion: Tilburg (Universiteit van Tilburg, Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen) 3. März 2006; promotoren: Prof.Dr. P. Post und Prof.Dr. A. Vernooij. Übersetzung: Dr. Dipl. Übers. Y. van den Akker-Savelsbergh
Modern requiem compositions and musical knowledge on death and afterlife
No full textHoondert analyses the texts, structure and music of the Requiem Masses composed by Rutter, Penderecki and Jenkins. To compose a Requiem Mass, he argues, is an attempt to communicate life and death experiences. The Requiem Mass offers a musical and ritualized set of guidelines for inner transformation and conveys musical knowledge on death and afterlife. Hoondert concludes that the Requiem Masses by Rutter and Jenkins convey a message of hope; Penderecki’s Polish Requiem however, confronts the listener with the raw aspects of death and violence in our times
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