The book explores the complexities of rituals in contemporary society, focusing on themes such as contingency, hybridity, and embodiment. Edited by Alexander Henn and Klaus-Peter K öpping, it brings together various perspectives on how rituals adapt and transform in unstable environments. The contributions highlight the dynamic nature of rituals and their significance in navigating cultural and social changes.
Opt-73: M.-A. Henn: Statistical Approaches to the Inverse Probelm of Scatterometry Engl., 92 S., 47 Abb., 13 Tab., ISBN 978-3-95606-063-2, 2013 € 16,50 In the present work statistical approaches to the inverse problem of scatterometry are discussed. Scatterometry is the dimensional characterization of periodic nanostructures as they are used in the manufacturing of lithographic masks. In contrast to direct imaging methods, such as electron microscopy, scatterometry is a non-imaging indirect measurement method. The critical dimensions (CDs) such as line widths and heights of the surface profile are determined from the measured light diffraction pattern.
Refuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim), intelligibility (Geertz) and dialectics (Turner). Instead, it shows that rituals assert their significance in the post-colonial and globalizing world by successfully negotiating structure and contingency, identity and hybridity, script and embodiment. Its case studies are dealing with a broad variety of ritual genres and expressions, including initiation ceremonies and spirit possession, new harvest ceremonies, cults of ancestors, deities and saints, ceremonial receptions, inaugurations and memorials, ritual theatre, carnival and ritual painting in contemporary Brazil, Germany, France, India, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Vietnam, and Yemen.