Reassembling Democracy
Ritual as Cultural Resource
Published on 21. April 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-350-18504-3 (ISBN)
Description
This open access book is the result of collaborations between international researchers who have focused on diverse processes of democratic participation-and exclusion-that are intimately involved with ritual acts and complexes. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve their potential as forms of personal and political empowerment in our changing world.
The authors seek to define the key terms "ritual" and "democracy" with reference to fieldwork-informed case studies from selected communities. They critically address democracy as a concept in a time of climate crisis, nationalism, religious re-traditionalizing, fake news and aspirational fascism. Furthermore, they discuss ways in which ritualized practices such as memorial gatherings, festivals, protest actions, pilgrimages and worship services give rise to modes of feeling, processes of representation, and patterns of interaction in which democratic explorations are given pride of place.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
The authors seek to define the key terms "ritual" and "democracy" with reference to fieldwork-informed case studies from selected communities. They critically address democracy as a concept in a time of climate crisis, nationalism, religious re-traditionalizing, fake news and aspirational fascism. Furthermore, they discuss ways in which ritualized practices such as memorial gatherings, festivals, protest actions, pilgrimages and worship services give rise to modes of feeling, processes of representation, and patterns of interaction in which democratic explorations are given pride of place.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-18504-3 (9781350185043)
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Persons
Jone Salomonsen is Professor ofTheology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Michael Houseman is Professor in the Religious Studies section, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France.
Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico, USA.
Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK.
The editors have significant publication lists and their interests span the study of religion(s), ritual, ecology, performance, indigeneity and contemporary social movements.
Michael Houseman is Professor in the Religious Studies section, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France.
Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico, USA.
Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK.
The editors have significant publication lists and their interests span the study of religion(s), ritual, ecology, performance, indigeneity and contemporary social movements.
Content
0. "Introduction", Graham Harvey, Michael Houseman, Sarah Pike and Jone Salomonsen
Part One: Ritual and Democracy
1. "Improvising ritual", Ronald L. Grimes
2. "Hospitable democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of crisis", Agnes Czajka
Part Two: Re-assembling communities
3. "Enchanting democracy: Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic rituals", Gregory Delaplace
4. "Indigenous rituals re-make the larger than human community", Graham Harvey
5. "Becoming autonomous together: Distanced intimacy in dances of self-discovery", Michael Houseman
6. "Walking pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Fatima in Portugal as democratic explorations", Anna Fedele
7. "The interreligious Choir of Civilizations: Politics of religious representation and ritual identity in Antakya (Antioch), Turkey", Jens Kreinath
Part Three: Commemoration and resistance
8. "The ritual powers of the weak: Democracy and public responses to the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway", Jone Salomonsen
9. "The Flower actions: Interreligious funerals after the Utoya massacre", Ida Marie Hoeg
10. "Dealing with death in contemporary Western culture: A view from afar", Marika Moisseeff
11. "Reinvented rituals as medicine in contemporary Indigenous films: Maligluitt, Mahana, and Goldstone", Ken Derry
Part One: Ritual and Democracy
1. "Improvising ritual", Ronald L. Grimes
2. "Hospitable democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of crisis", Agnes Czajka
Part Two: Re-assembling communities
3. "Enchanting democracy: Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic rituals", Gregory Delaplace
4. "Indigenous rituals re-make the larger than human community", Graham Harvey
5. "Becoming autonomous together: Distanced intimacy in dances of self-discovery", Michael Houseman
6. "Walking pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Fatima in Portugal as democratic explorations", Anna Fedele
7. "The interreligious Choir of Civilizations: Politics of religious representation and ritual identity in Antakya (Antioch), Turkey", Jens Kreinath
Part Three: Commemoration and resistance
8. "The ritual powers of the weak: Democracy and public responses to the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway", Jone Salomonsen
9. "The Flower actions: Interreligious funerals after the Utoya massacre", Ida Marie Hoeg
10. "Dealing with death in contemporary Western culture: A view from afar", Marika Moisseeff
11. "Reinvented rituals as medicine in contemporary Indigenous films: Maligluitt, Mahana, and Goldstone", Ken Derry