Form and ritual, power and prejudice | Noel Carroll, Hannah Dawson, Linda Woodhead
14Noel Carroll, Hannah Dawson and Linda Woodhead discuss whether keeping up with old traditions can still benefit us in our every day life.
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From greetings and introductions, to love and relationships, church services and dances, formality and ritual were once a central part of our lives. But form and ritual have been in retreat for more than a century. Many now see formality as outdated, an unnecessary sign of deference, and welcome a less constrained, more open culture.
Should we see formality and ritual as a power play that embeds hierarchy and prejudice? Or might the abandonment of ritual be a contemporary mistake? Are social rules, as some in the Me Too movement have argued, a defence for the vulnerable? And can ritual lift us out of the mundane and everyday to higher and better goals?
Historian of ideas Hannah Dawson pulls no punches debating philosopher of religion Linda Woodhead and distinguished art critic Noel Carroll on the place of formality and ritual in the modern world. Writer and broadcaster Myriam Francois hosts.
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Noël Carroll is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is known as one of the most important contemporary figures in Philosophy of Art. In 2002, Noël received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research into dance and was named as ‘the sixth most influential philosopher of art since 1945’ by the Philosophical Gourmet Report.
Historian of political thought and lecturer at Kings College London, Hannah Dawson is author of Locke, Language and Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press) and, most recently, Life Lessons from Hobbes (Pan Macmillan).
Linda Woodhead is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Society, and has been awarded an MBE for her services to higher education. In 2007, Linda became the director of the Religion and Society research programme, heading 265 academics in the field. This culminated in the Westminster Faith Debates which she co-founded with then-Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke. The debates featured Tony Blair, Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins. The head of the Royal Society of Arts, Matthew Taylor, described Linda as ‘one of the world's leading experts on religion’.
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