Ritual and Democracy
Protests, Publics and Performances
1st Edition
Published on 4. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-78179-975-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ritual and Democracy explores the complex intersections of ritual and democracy in a range of contemporary, cultural, and geographic contexts.
This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative volume emerged out of a workshop held at the Open University in London, organized as part of the international research project, "Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource", funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by Jone Salomonsen. The seven research-led chapters presented here document entanglements of the religious and the secular in political assembly and iconoclastic protest, of affect and belonging in pilgrimage and church ritual, and politics and identity in performances of self and culture. Across the essays emerges a conception of ritual less as scripts for generating stability than as improvisational spaces and as catalysts for change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78179-975-8 (9781781799758)
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Persons
Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. Jone Salomonsen is professor of Theology on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. Paul-Francois Tremlett is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University.
Content
Introduction Sarah M. Pike, Jone Salomonsen and Paul-Francois Tremlett Part 1: Protests Chapter 1: Rituals of Resistance and the Struggle over Democracy in Turkey Agnes Czajka, The Open University Chapter 2: Making Ritual Enactments Political: Free Speech after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks Zaki Nahaboo, Birmingham City University Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Energies: The Political Agency of Things Paul Francois Tremlett Part 2: Publics Chapter 4: Affective Communitas and Sacred Geography: Mapping Place and Movement in Norwegian Pilgrimage Marion Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology Chapter 5: How to Do Things with Rituals, or: Disrupting Protestant Lutheran Theology, Converting Refugees and their Appropriation of the Eucharist Gitte Buch-Hansen, University of Copenhagen Part 3: Performances Chapter 6: Dances of Self-development as a Resource for Participatory Democracy Michael Houseman, PSL Research University, France, and Marie Mazzella di Bosco, PhD Candidate, Paris Nanterre University Chapter 7: Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement Graham Harvey, The Open University