Roger Grainger
Biographic Data
| ID | 6282319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Grainger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Grainger |
| SIGNATURE | GRAINGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Implicit Soulfulness
The sociological study of religion has established that people do in fact behave in ways which are implicitly religious, without their actually belonging to an explicitly religious organisation of any kind. What remains to be investigated, however, is why they do this. This paper aims to make a contribution to such an enquiry by using theatre to argue that these individuals are drawn in the direction of religious belief by the inalienable charact…
Playing Games with Death
The symbolism of chaos which emerges from the “amusements” around which traditional Irish funerals were organized brings home an essential truth about corporate rituals: that they serve to focus our awareness of a global truth embodied within an articulated gesture of human meaning. In the act which signifies a specific dying, a message about all human life is encapsulated. The funeral is seen as a communication about survival. Examples of this a…
Charles
Just as acceptance of explicitly religious systems and membership of officially religious organizations can give rise to psychological conflict, as well as helping to resolve it, so implicitly religious conformity can produce epistemological conflict and confusion, in the event of cognitive dissonance. The case of Charles, employed by a large international bank, illustrates this, and draws attention to the ethical dimension of organizational reli…
What Islands Say
“Whether one is conscious of it or not,” says Christy Newton, “the ever-present and inundating usual signs and symbols of the social world perform a socializing function, similar to performing routines reminding people who they are and where they are” (2009, 21). Nowhere is this more the case than with islands. An island focuses, concentrates, reminds, inspires; it brings us up short against the matter in hand. It is not surprising therefore that…
‘We’ll Hang Ourselves Tomorrow’
‘Waiting for Godot’ is a play about behaviour which is identifiably religious from a sociological point of view, although not explicitly so. Because it is a play, it is an icon of implicitness, as plays don’t say what they mean in the form of explicit messages from the author to the audience, but communicate implicitly through fictitious events and personages. In this particular play, the main characters demonstrate by means of what they say and …
The Faith of Actors
Over a period of several months, twenty-five actors were invited to answer the question ‘What is acting really about?’ Eighteen out of the twenty-five replied. Their response provides evidence for the claim that theatre is itself an inherently spiritual medium (as well as a vehicle for explicitly religious plays), and that the relationship of professional actors to their craft may be considered to be implicitly religious
Europe
A Reply to Gollnick -- Implicit Relgion isn't Spirituality in Disguise
In a recent article in Implicit Religion, James Gollnick compares implicit religion with ‘non-religious spirituality’, and draws the conclusion that they are both the same kind of thing: Implicit religion appears to be indistinguishable from the kind of non-religious spirituality that is becoming increasingly widespread in our society. (Implicit Religion 6.3: 158) He borrows the idea of spirituality which is non-religious from James Fuller, who c…
The Orifice as Sacrificial Site
Worldview
A Reply to Gollnick?Implicit Religion isn't Spirituality in Disguise
In a recent article in Implicit Religion, James Gollnick compares implicit religion with ‘non-religious spirituality’, and draws the conclusion that they are both the same kind of thing: Implicit religion appears to be indistinguishable from the kind of non-religious spirituality that is becoming increasingly widespread in our society. (Implicit Religion 6.3: 158) He borrows the idea of spirituality which is non-religious from James Fuller, who c…
Believing and Belonging
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Madness and Theology
Let Death be Death
It is argued that traditional Irish wake customs make most sense when we acknowledge their identity as vivid ways of expressing 'non-sense'. In their roles as symbols of social and personal chaos they communicate a sense of the breakdown of order associated with the impact of human death upon individuals and communities. This is a message that is absent from some contemporary British funerals, making them less powerful rites of passage than they …
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Let Death be Death
It is argued that traditional Irish wake customs make most sense when we acknowledge their identity as vivid ways of expressing 'non-sense'. In their roles as symbols of social and personal chaos they communicate a sense of the breakdown of order associated with the impact of human death upon individuals and communities. This is a message that is absent from some contemporary British funerals, making them less powerful rites of passage than they …
Madness and Theology
Believing and Belonging
.
Europe
A Reply to Gollnick -- Implicit Relgion isn't Spirituality in Disguise
In a recent article in Implicit Religion, James Gollnick compares implicit religion with ‘non-religious spirituality’, and draws the conclusion that they are both the same kind of thing: Implicit religion appears to be indistinguishable from the kind of non-religious spirituality that is becoming increasingly widespread in our society. (Implicit Religion 6.3: 158) He borrows the idea of spirituality which is non-religious from James Fuller, who c…
The Orifice as Sacrificial Site
Worldview
A Reply to Gollnick?Implicit Religion isn't Spirituality in Disguise
In a recent article in Implicit Religion, James Gollnick compares implicit religion with ‘non-religious spirituality’, and draws the conclusion that they are both the same kind of thing: Implicit religion appears to be indistinguishable from the kind of non-religious spirituality that is becoming increasingly widespread in our society. (Implicit Religion 6.3: 158) He borrows the idea of spirituality which is non-religious from James Fuller, who c…
The Faith of Actors
Over a period of several months, twenty-five actors were invited to answer the question ‘What is acting really about?’ Eighteen out of the twenty-five replied. Their response provides evidence for the claim that theatre is itself an inherently spiritual medium (as well as a vehicle for explicitly religious plays), and that the relationship of professional actors to their craft may be considered to be implicitly religious
‘We’ll Hang Ourselves Tomorrow’
‘Waiting for Godot’ is a play about behaviour which is identifiably religious from a sociological point of view, although not explicitly so. Because it is a play, it is an icon of implicitness, as plays don’t say what they mean in the form of explicit messages from the author to the audience, but communicate implicitly through fictitious events and personages. In this particular play, the main characters demonstrate by means of what they say and …
What Islands Say
“Whether one is conscious of it or not,” says Christy Newton, “the ever-present and inundating usual signs and symbols of the social world perform a socializing function, similar to performing routines reminding people who they are and where they are” (2009, 21). Nowhere is this more the case than with islands. An island focuses, concentrates, reminds, inspires; it brings us up short against the matter in hand. It is not surprising therefore that…
Playing Games with Death
The symbolism of chaos which emerges from the “amusements” around which traditional Irish funerals were organized brings home an essential truth about corporate rituals: that they serve to focus our awareness of a global truth embodied within an articulated gesture of human meaning. In the act which signifies a specific dying, a message about all human life is encapsulated. The funeral is seen as a communication about survival. Examples of this a…
Charles
Just as acceptance of explicitly religious systems and membership of officially religious organizations can give rise to psychological conflict, as well as helping to resolve it, so implicitly religious conformity can produce epistemological conflict and confusion, in the event of cognitive dissonance. The case of Charles, employed by a large international bank, illustrates this, and draws attention to the ethical dimension of organizational reli…
Implicit Soulfulness
The sociological study of religion has established that people do in fact behave in ways which are implicitly religious, without their actually belonging to an explicitly religious organisation of any kind. What remains to be investigated, however, is why they do this. This paper aims to make a contribution to such an enquiry by using theatre to argue that these individuals are drawn in the direction of religious belief by the inalienable charact…
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