The Distinction Between Power And Rank Analysis

In The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process, Maurice Bloch talks about the economic and political development of South Asia and Polynesia, and he addresses the main issue of relationship between symbolic ‘rank’ and ‘power’ in the society. He examines how the production of rank through ritual and its importance in the evolution of political systems in Madagascar. Bloch’s ideas on disconnection relates to his argument that spiritual realm or sacred authority involving the particular view of the world’s religious systems, which works on concealing the elements and practical alternatives. In Civil Religion in America, Robert N. Bellah compares the differences between public and private religion and how civil religion is not the same as religion found in places of worship but are influenced by them (i.g. Christianity). Bellah talks about how the American civic consciousness was influenced by God and church, how religious ideas were shaped by what it meant to be Americans and the ritual component of politics which also showcases …show more content…
The disconnection of each of the ideas created its own category with authority and practices relating to that realm of focus. However, the overall pattern of each of these occurrences showcases the evolution of certain viewpoints and rituals of religion within the aspect of how it is perceived and practiced. Each has an overall start that is soon separated into two sides of properties that has its own setbacks on the other’s. For example, the leftist and rightist viewpoints was created from politics, evolution of rank and power through ritual in the political system, and the civil religion that came from religion and ritual. The people were influenced by them and created their aspects of ritual religion to ‘celebrate’ for the symbolic and societal