1st Edition

Rituals and Routines Reflecting Change, Redefining Meaning, Recasting Scope

Edited By Julie Tinson, Pete Nuttall Copyright 2025
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This contemporary book offers current perspectives on routines and rituals to extend an understanding of the scope of these concepts, with a view to challenging conventional wisdom and to offer insight for practitioners. Routines and rituals are part of everyday being. Routines can be useful for individuals in structuring ‘messiness’ in their lives, while rituals are often more spectacular in... Read more

Introduction: Rituals and routines: reflecting change, redefining meaning, recasting scope

Julie Tinson and Pete Nuttall

 

1. Shining the spotlight on marketplace rituals: a review and research agenda

Arun Sreekumar, Robert Alfonso Arias, Cele C. Otnes and Linda Tuncay Zayer

 

2. Hen Dos and Don’ts: lifting the veil on tensions in consumer rituals

Nicole Porter, Amy Goode and Stephanie Anderson

 

3. Use it or lose it?: exploring the grey area of dormant possessions and the role of rituals in value dynamics of household objects

Chantal Assima, Maud Herbert and Isabelle Robert

 

4. The influence of ritual efficacy on ritual vitality: temporal plaiting in the vestaval

Tonya Williams Bradford and John F. Sherry Jr

 

5. Everyday consumption during COVID-19

Brendan Canavan

Biography

Julie Tinson is Professor of Marketing at the University of Stirling, UK. Her research explores the inter-relationships and sociocultural factors affecting individual and collective youth activity and experiences. The contexts for this work include rituals e.g., high school prom, as well as sport fandom and music.

 

Pete Nuttall is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath, UK. His work has examined adolescent expression of self in the context of music consumption, the social environment and its relevance for adolescent choice and use of music. Recently he has explored elective identity and commitment to practice within social groups.