Devising order : socio-religious models, rituals, and the performativity of practice / edited by Bruno Boute, Thomas Smaberg.
A collection of case-studies on Ritual and Performance spanning four continents, this book offers an insightful travel guide through a thick forest of approaches and methods in a field that has increasingly weighed on the research agenda in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Series: | Brill's series in church history ;
d. 60. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice / Bruno Boute and Thomas Smaberg
- The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver : A Flemish dinner play performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565 / Wim Francois
- Death as the guest of honour : the social constructions of funeral rites in southern Sweden, 1880-1949 / Anna Stark
- Giving public space a face : The Agency of Monuments and Portraits, Thailand and the Netherlands compared / Irene Stengs
- Making space for performativity : publics, powers, and places in a Multi- Register Town Festival (Bondoukou, Cote d'Ivoire) / Karel Arnaut
- Place, power, and prophecy : ritual space and speech among the Yucatec Maya from colonial time to present time / Bodil Liljefors Persson
- Reinventing the apostolic tradition : transition and appropriation in the Medieval Commemoration of the Apostles / Els Rose
- Affirming Papal supremacy-shaping Catholicism : the readjustment of symbolic resources at the post-trent Roman court / Julia Zunckel
- The Ritual Battle of Tournament : Tornej, Dust, and Bohord in medieval Sweden ca. 1250- 1320 / Thomas Smaberg
- European and Chinese controversies over rituals : a seventeenth-century genealogy of Chinese religion / Eugenio Menegon
- Engineering the sacred : perspectives for research into sacramental practice and conflicts over sacraments in the seventeenth century / Bruno Boute
- The Jesuit ordering : in between the imaginative force of the art of memory and the organizational power of accounting practices / Paolo Quattrone
- Concluding remarks : rituality, performativity, history, and religion / Joris Van Eijnatten.