Leah Sookoo’s Reviews > The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time > Status Update

I like Victor Turner's word, "communitas." He was talking about the kind of group life that emerges at the edges of society, not in the middle of it, where people search for something—meaning, solace, truths—that the larger society doesn't seem to offer. Communitas describes a gathering that may be a little offbeat, a little decrepit, rather hard to see the point of if you're peering in from outside.