Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource - Hardcover

Michael Houseman; Sarah M. Pike And Graham Harvey Jone Salomonsen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350123013 ISBN 13: 9781350123014

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

Diverse processes of democratic participation - and exclusion - are closely bound by ritual acts and complexes. This collection is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the use of those cultural resources identifiable as ritual as they reassemble democracy. 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 and challenging world. The contributors seek to define the key terms ritual and democracy with reference to fieldwork-informed case studies from selected locations and communities. They critically address democracy as a concept, practice, model or vision in a time of climate crisis, nationalism, religious re-traditionalizing, fake news and aspirational fascism. Furthermore, they discuss ways in which ritual and ritualized practices such as memorial gatherings, festivals, protest actions, pilgrimages, worship services give rise to modes of feeling, processes of representation, and patterns of interaction in which democratic explorations, collective resistance and/or involvement with the larger than human world are given pride of place.

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About the Author

Jone Salomonsen is Professor ofTheology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Michael Houseman is Professor in the Religious Studies section, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico, USA. Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. The editors have significant publication lists and their interests span the study of religion(s), ritual, ecology, performance, indigeneity and contemporary social movements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350123013
• ISBN 13: 9781350123014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Michael Houseman, Sarah M. Pike And Graham Harvey Jone Salomonsen