Thomas Hauschild
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Thomas Hauschild

Thomas Hauschild is co-editor of Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften and was professor of Ethnology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Hans Blumenberg Professor at the University of Münster.
Thomas Hauschild is co-editor of Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften and was professor of Ethnology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Hans Blumenberg Professor at the University of Münster.

PUBLICATIONS

Ritual and Violence
Year of Publication: 2008
Thomas HauschildYear of Publication: 2008
In the late 1980s, religiously motivated rituals in Europe were considered a species threatened by extinction. Archaic relics of only folkloristic or entertainment interests which would no longer have any meaning in a globalized and secularized world. Twenty years later, the situation has changed fundamentally.


Old rituals live on and new ones are being invented and forcing their way...