Participative Rituality: Multimodal Research on Religious Communication in the Church Interior

• DOI: 10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.3.23
• Publication Date: 2018-11-15T06:12:48Z
• Authors: Anna Petrova; ; Reinhold Schmitt; ; Oleg Stulberg
• Keywords: Situational ethics

In this article, the execution of a ritual as component religious communication is analysed.The ritual, in which church community remembers deceased, celebrated evangelic Sarepta (Volgograd) on last Sunday year, so-called 'eternity Sunday'.The study based two scientific approaches: ethnomethodology and multimodal interaction analysis.These approaches make it possible to analyse social cultural practices visitors conjunction with organisation service.Specifically, becomes to: a) develop new paradigms when analysing actual use interior, b) identify basic activities church, c) introduce concepts into use, d) present remembrance complex, multimodally constituted event, e) focus coordination linguistic, physical spatial clerics at different stages service understand their respective content communicative status.For video recordings service, 'architecture-for-interaction' 'social topography' are used, making discover aspects influence communication.The concept provides framework for answering question how interior contributes ritual.Forms situational space knowledge underlying captured topography'.From structural viewpoint, analyzed organization division responsibilities, consists phases non-simultaneity, has three-positional basis, structurally open.Because these characteristics, can be described 'participatory rituality'.Participatory rituality allows socialization lets members participate active legitimate participants autonomously contribute ritual.