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Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

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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Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

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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Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781799758
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Publication date: 07/01/2020
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary Paganism, ritual, the New Age movement, the primitive skills movement, the Burning Man festival, spiritual dance, environmental activism, the ancestral skills movement, and youth culture.

Jone Salomonsen is professor of Theology on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. She is the Project Manager for the Norwegian Research Council funded project "Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource." Her teaching areas include contemporary religion, method, ritual studies, constructive theology and feminist theory.

Paul-François Tremlett is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University in the UK. He got his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is currently interested in processes of rapid social change and intersections of politics and religion.

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