Absent ritual : exploring the ambivalence and dynamics of ritual / edited by Paul Post, Martin Hoondert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Post, Paul, 1953- editor.

Hoondert, Martin J. M., 1967- editor.

Series:

Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual--Case studies.

Ritual.

Rites and ceremonies--Case studies.

Rites and ceremonies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2019]

Summary:

"This book is a presentation of case studies of absent rituals, intended to explore absent ritual as a ritual category of its own by distinguishing forms or types of its manifestation, use, and appropriation. Apart from this groundbreaking exploration of a ritual category, this theme of absent ritual fits into a broader trend in ritual studies. In addition to a strong focus on ritual repertoires with a sort of 'canonical' status (rites of passage, death rites, pilgrimage, etc.), attention has recently been paid to more problem-oriented and analytical categories of ritual. These categories focus more explicitly on ritual as a process of action and reaction, on different contexts and thus on the ritual dynamics. The contributors to Absent Ritual engage this tradition of ritual categories and approaches with a very topical ritual category in hand, a type of ritual that enters a very prominent field of ritual dynamics. The first part of the book presents the concept and categories of absent ritual and the second part, the core of the book, consists of thematic case studies illustrating and exploring the categories of absent ritual"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Emerging ritual : divorce ritual / Martin Hoondert

Disappearing ritual : redundant church buildings / Paul Post

Ritual indifference : cremation rituals in the Netherlands in the late 1960s-1980s / Martin Hoondert

Banned ritual : ritual absences in Mormon weddings / Walter van Beek

Ritual selectivity : commemorating the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut / William Arfman

Non-healing rituals and how to build a peaceful future : between memory and oblivion / Martin Hoondert

Postponed ritual at the site of a monument : the case of stillborn children / Laurie Faro

Unseen ritual : the Saenredam church interiors / Paul Post

Vicarious ritual : requiem concerts as vicarious All Souls' Day ritual / Martin Hoondert

Absent ritual through ritual secrecy and concealment / Paul Post

@Ritual : contested and inauthentic / Paul Post.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781531013646

1531013643

9781531013653

1531013651

OCLC:

1110150333