Проблеми на приемствеността в съвременната празнично-обредна система
Problems of Continuity in the Contemporary Festive Ritual System

Summary/Abstract: In the contemporary festive ritual system continuity acquires outstanding importance for theory as well as for practice. So far continuity has been interpreted only in its relationship between the old and the new, and this is a rather narrow concept, one-sided and incomplete as well. The article considers the most important trends in continuity in the contemporary festive ritual system, trends that define both its 'vertical' and its 'horizontal' aspects. The article also considers the good qualities of our traditional feasts and rituals which should be made meaningful and used. Individual forms of the manifestations of continuity are concretely presented. On the basis of a scientific and critical approach to the old feasts and rituals, they are divided into three main groups, which have a different fate in our time: 1) existing ones; 2) these which have remained only as a memory of the past and 3) those which have outlived their time. The continuity of the Soviet festive ritual system played an important part in the socialist way of life in our country. The importance of continuity of the feasts in the other socialist countries is also emphasized, as well as that of those which are of international significance.

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