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Devising Order : Socio-religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice.
Title:
Devising Order : Socio-religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice.
Author:
Småberg, Thomas.
ISBN:
9789004240032
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Religious History and Culture Series
Contents:
Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Devising Order. Socio-religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice -- The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver: A Flemish Dinner Play Performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565) -- Death as the Guest of Honour: The Social Constructions of Funeral Rites in Southern Sweden, 1880-1949 -- Giving Public Space a Face: The Agency of Monuments and Portraits, Thailand and the Netherlands Compared -- Making Space for Performativity: Publics, Powers, and Places in a Multi-Register Town Festival (Bondoukou, Côte d'Ivoire) -- Place, Power, and Prophecy: Ritual Space and Speech among the Yucatec Maya from Colonial Time to Present Time -- Reinventing the Apostolic Tradition: Transition and Appropriation in the Medieval Commemoration of the Apostles -- Affirming Papal Supremacy-Shaping Catholicism: The Readjustment of Symbolic Resources at the Post-Trent Roman Court -- The Ritual Battle of Tournament: Tornej, Dust, and Bohord in Medieval Sweden ca. 1250-1320 -- European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals: A Seventeenth-Century Genealogy of Chinese Religion -- Engineering the Sacred: Perspectives for Research into Sacramental Practice and Conflicts over Sacraments in the Seventeenth Century -- The Jesuit Ordering: In Between the Imaginative Force of the Art of Memory and the Organizational Power of Accounting Practices -- Concluding Remarks: Rituality, Performativity, History, and Religion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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