Ritual Making Women
Shaping Rites for Changing Lives
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84553-415-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ritual Making Women looks at the way in which women's making of ritual has emerged from the rapidly developing field of women's spirituality and theology. The author uses ethnographic material to explore how the construction of ritual uses story-making and embodied action to empower women. Ritual, far from being a timeless and universal practice, is shown to be a contextual and gendered performance in which women subvert conventional distinctions of private and public. The book combines narrative and case study material and draws on feminist theology and theory, social anthropology and gender studies.
Reviews / Votes
"Berry pursues a wide-ranging discussion of issues involved in the construction and enactment of ritual and the effects of such ritual making. The interweaving of detailed descriptions of these case studies with discussion of theory related to ritualizing makes for a fresh and stimulating contribution to this field of study." - Practical TheologyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sheffield
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-415-8 (9781845534158)
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Person
Jan Berry is a tutor in Practical Theology at Luther King House, Manchester, where she teaches pastoral studies, liturgy and worship, and feminist theology and spirituality on an MA and undergraduate programme in contextual theology. She is a minister of the United Reformed Church, and has considerable experience in creating and writing material for worship, particularly with women's groups. She has previously worked in local church ministry and university chaplaincy.
Content
1. Exploring the Power of Ritual
2. 'Sisters are doing it for themselves'
3. Whose Story Is It Anyway? An Exploration of Methodology
Case Study One: Letting Go and Moving On - Carol's Story
4. Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Two: Knots and Dreams - Clare's Story
5. Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Three: Shells and Fish - Jane's Story
6. Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and Agency
Case Study Four: The Name That's Yet to Be - Jackie's Story
7. Private or Public? The Communal Dimension of Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Five: This is My Body: Nicola's Story
8. Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament, and Embodied Theology
9. Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual Making
Appendix One: Summary of Data
2. 'Sisters are doing it for themselves'
3. Whose Story Is It Anyway? An Exploration of Methodology
Case Study One: Letting Go and Moving On - Carol's Story
4. Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Two: Knots and Dreams - Clare's Story
5. Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Three: Shells and Fish - Jane's Story
6. Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and Agency
Case Study Four: The Name That's Yet to Be - Jackie's Story
7. Private or Public? The Communal Dimension of Women's Ritual Making
Case Study Five: This is My Body: Nicola's Story
8. Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament, and Embodied Theology
9. Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual Making
Appendix One: Summary of Data