Pragmatic Action and Enchanted Worlds
A Black Tiger Rite of Commemoration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Roberts (0000-0002-0929-3044) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/015597706780886120 |
| OpenAlex | W2074882829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
Since Weber's time, it has been believed that 'enchantment' progressively gave way to secular rationalism and its disenchanted ways. This essay breaks the twinning of enchantment with 'irrationality' in developing the argument that enchanted practices and pragmatic methods co-exist fruitfully in the activities of the LTTE. Circumstantial evidence, arising from pictures and descriptions of hero rituals sponsored by the LTTE, provides the foundation for this argument. It is suggested that the Saivite universe of being has nourished these symbolic compositions. A photograph of Black Tigers paying homage to their dead with guns in the left hand and flowers in the right provides a condensed demonstration as well as a point of departure for this suggestion. It is a moment of conjunctiveness that has the potential to fuse past, present, and future, thus achieving 'fusion force'
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Circumstantial evidence · Epistemology · HERO · Irrationality · Literature · Rationality · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |