TY - BOOK ID - 136169564 TI - “Who, Being Loved, Is Poor?” - Material and Media Dimensions of Weddings : Journal for Religion, Film and Media AU - Uskoković, Vuk AU - Toufic Ishaya El-Khoury AU - Dietmar Adler AU - Benedikt Bauer AU - Richard Vance Goodwin AU - Philippe Bornet AU - Anna-Katharina Höpflinger AU - Hannah M Scott AU - Sharon Lauricella AU - Christian Wessely AU - Arno Haldemann AU - Martig, Charles AU - Marie-Therese Mäder PY - 2018 PB - Schüren Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Marriage customs and rites. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136169564 AB - Marriage can be understood as a rite of passage that marks a fundamental transformation in a person?s life, legally, politically, and economically, and often in that person?s self-conception, as an individual and in terms of his or her place in society. This transformation combines and blurs various themes. We focus here on the following aspects, which are integral to the articles in this issue: the private and the public, tradition and innovation, the collective and the individual. The media play a crucial role in shaping all of these categories and their relationship. Finally, we consider the connections between marriage and religion, for a wedding is not per se religious. In the contemporary European context in particular, a wedding can take the form simply of the signing of a socio-legal contract. But nevertheless? or perhaps exactly therefore? marriages are often staged ritualistically and linked to religious symbols, worldviews, and norms. ER -