rebounding violence, n.Definitions

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

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

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.