Anna Strhan
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- October 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198789611
- eISBN:
- 9780191831393
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198789611.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
We are living through times in which traditional religious rites of passage are in question in Western societies. Chapter 6 focuses on what rites of passage in relation to childhood looked like at ...
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We are living through times in which traditional religious rites of passage are in question in Western societies. Chapter 6 focuses on what rites of passage in relation to childhood looked like at each of the three evangelical churches explored in this book and examines how particular moments of transition were being constructed and marked in children’s lives. The chapter explores the different ways in which those at St John’s (conservative evangelical), St George’s (charismatic evangelical), and Riverside (open evangelical) engaged with traditional rites of passage such as infant baptism and how they often demonstrated ritual creativity in their marking of other moments of transition, such as the move from primary to secondary school. It also examines how these rites reveal different understandings of children’s agency.Less
We are living through times in which traditional religious rites of passage are in question in Western societies. Chapter 6 focuses on what rites of passage in relation to childhood looked like at each of the three evangelical churches explored in this book and examines how particular moments of transition were being constructed and marked in children’s lives. The chapter explores the different ways in which those at St John’s (conservative evangelical), St George’s (charismatic evangelical), and Riverside (open evangelical) engaged with traditional rites of passage such as infant baptism and how they often demonstrated ritual creativity in their marking of other moments of transition, such as the move from primary to secondary school. It also examines how these rites reveal different understandings of children’s agency.
Lisa Nanney
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781942954873
- eISBN:
- 9781789629781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954873.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
The narrativization of early film during its transition from one-reel nickelodeon attraction to full-length multi-reel feature incorporated the story-telling devices and perspectival conventions of ...
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The narrativization of early film during its transition from one-reel nickelodeon attraction to full-length multi-reel feature incorporated the story-telling devices and perspectival conventions of the novel. Dos Passos’ firm grasp of these conventions is evident from his novels of that period, including Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the beginnings of U.S.A. His earlier war novels One Man’s Initiation: 1917 and Three Soldiers (1921), drawing from his own military experiences, demonstrate his understanding also of the emotional and behavioral impact of film and the beginnings of his exploration of how film achieves its power. His military training showed him how movies could be exploited to incite aggression, compel conformity, and overwhelm individual thinking. But by incorporating into his early novels the strategies of film editing developed by pioneers such as D.W. Griffith, Dos Passos was attempting to recreate film’s powerful potentials as a means to elicit individual thought and democratic activism. His use of film as subject and signifier in his modernist novels and his adaptation of cinematic technique in their forms are central to their response to the possibilities and the threats of the machine age that fostered the rise of cinema.Less
The narrativization of early film during its transition from one-reel nickelodeon attraction to full-length multi-reel feature incorporated the story-telling devices and perspectival conventions of the novel. Dos Passos’ firm grasp of these conventions is evident from his novels of that period, including Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the beginnings of U.S.A. His earlier war novels One Man’s Initiation: 1917 and Three Soldiers (1921), drawing from his own military experiences, demonstrate his understanding also of the emotional and behavioral impact of film and the beginnings of his exploration of how film achieves its power. His military training showed him how movies could be exploited to incite aggression, compel conformity, and overwhelm individual thinking. But by incorporating into his early novels the strategies of film editing developed by pioneers such as D.W. Griffith, Dos Passos was attempting to recreate film’s powerful potentials as a means to elicit individual thought and democratic activism. His use of film as subject and signifier in his modernist novels and his adaptation of cinematic technique in their forms are central to their response to the possibilities and the threats of the machine age that fostered the rise of cinema.
