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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8702151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %RITUALS OF COMMUNAL INTEGRATION 870215 The integrity of a community depends upon the rituals by which it affirms the significance and importance of those realities and relationships which its members consider to be significant and important. There may exist conflicts among those ideals, values, realities, relationships, etc. defined as important through affirmation in communal rituals on the one hand; and as represented by private relationships on the other hand. To the extent that the community as a whole fails to resolve such conflicts there exist in the community tendencies for disintegration. The failure to resolve private/communal conflicts may entail neglect through diversion of attention, as well as overt violent conflict in various forms. The failure to affirm integrative private realities and relationships in any communal rituals may indicate a conflict between communal values and private values. The communal failure to work for the resolution of such conflicts can ultimately undermine both personal and communal integrity. There is a need for rituals in support of conflict resolution; rituals for the integration of private and communal living. A community lacks integrity if being private means being hidden due to conflicts among private and communal values. This is especially the case when such conflicts are neglected and/or abetted by communally affirmed rituals. Privacy is essential to communal health; yet the need for privacy should not be heightened by neglecting and/or abetting conflicts among personal and communal values. It is far more integrative to enrich privacy by resolving the conflicts which do exist among private and communal values through communal rituals. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================