James Laidlaw

Quotes From

The Archetypal Actions of Ritual (1994)

• Ritualization, by presenting action to experience as already-constituted and hence apprehensible elements, allows a wide variety of actual conduct to be counted unambiguously as successful performance, and this is independent of the attribution of particular propositional meanings to the acts.#Quoted in Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, Michael Puett, & Bennett Simon, Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2008)