Religious ceremonies built community that extended beyond individual plantations.
Evidence
As a result, when we think about society, we are almost always coerced by our traditions into seeing it as a network of power, administration, decision, and control—as a political order. Alternatively, we have seen society essentially as relations of property, produc- tion, and trade—an economic order. But social life is more than power and trade (and it is more than therapy as well). As Williams has argued, it also includes the sharing of aesthetic experience, religious ideas, personal values and sentiments, and intellectual notions—a ritual order. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 223 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Social life includes a ritual order beyond power and trade. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 223; Rural folk religion reinforces group boundaries through local sacred markers; Extending moral concern to anonymous strangers was originally a religious achievement. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 472
Related
- Social life includes a ritual order beyond power and trade. (similarity 0.86)
- Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs. (similarity 0.80)
- The ritual view of communication maintains society in time through shared beliefs (similarity 0.79)
- Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Social life includes a ritual order beyond power and trade.
#expands(0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 223