Tradition, Transformation, and Democratic Education.
As Tocqueville saw almost 200 years ago, rituals sit uncomfortably with democratic people, who tend to see them as inegalitarian or unjust impositions of authority. Molly Farneth's new book, The Politics of Ritual , encourages American progressives to see ritual differently. Rituals, she says, can b...
| Publicado en: | Political Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA) Vol. 140; no. 2; pp. 357 - 368 |
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