Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350185043 ISBN 13: 9781350185043

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK.

Michael Houseman is Professor of Religious Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France.

Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico, USA.

Jone Salomonsen is Professor of Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350185043
• ISBN 13: 9781350185043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Salomonsen Jone