Meaning of communitas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unstructured community of common experience.
   countable, uncountable
2. The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.”

“A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.”

“The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.”

“Their focus is on group bonding, and the euphoric, almost transcendental experience of becoming one with the music and the crowd (which sounds like a version of what the anthropologist Victor Turner called ‘communitas’—an intense, intimate, liberating kind of group bonding, experienced only in ‘liminal’ states).”

“Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism.”

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