rebounding violence

is a universal feature of a rather conservative ritual structure characterized by the enacting of the conquest of everyday vitality by transcendental, supernatural powers.

Bloch describes as 'rebounding violence', which enacts the conquest of everyday vitality by transcendental, supernatural powers. For Bloch, this conquest takes place within the initiand herself/himself and by (re)affirming the transcendence of cosmological forms ensures their subordination to ritual authority and (ultimately) the social order. Bloch therefore identifies rebounding violence as a universal feature of a rather conservative ritual structure. (mitchell 2004 social anthropology 12, 1, 57)

is the ritual process whereby native vitality is replaced by a conquered, external, consumed vitality.

is a term used to refer to the transformation of the material processes of life into the irreducible structures of religious phenomena.

is so called because the transformation of 'life' into 'religious structures' is marked by (a) a rebounding dialectical process (b) some kind of violence

rebounding violence, n.All

rebounding violence