This dissertation reconceives ritual as a participatory technology for generating meaning and knowledge within an immanent, non-transcendent understanding of the sacred. Responding to the contemporary crisis of meaning.

it argues that ritual enables embodied, intuitive, and relational ways of knowing that align with Spinoza’s third kind of knowledge. Drawing on philosophical and esoteric traditions, the work identifies six operations of ritual, such as embodied practice and ontological contact, through which ritual cultivates presence, ethics, and joy as modes of being in the world.

ritual as technology: meaning-making and the sacred in an age of immanence
received a mark of 81 from the university of Cambridge.