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E-book Reassembling Democracy : Ritual as Cultural Resource

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Diverse processes of democratic participation – and exclusion – are braided with or propelled onwards by ritual acts and complexes. This volume is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the employment and deployment of those cultural resources identifiable as ‘ritual’ as particular communities reassemble democracy. The juxtaposition of the key terms ‘ritual’ and ‘democracy’ enriches understanding of processes, performances and even polemics to which they might be attached.The volume critically addresses democracy as concept, practice, model or vision in a time of climate crisis, nationalism, religious re-traditionalizing, fake news and aspirational fascism. It discusses ways in which ritual and ritualized practices 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 engaged, energized or problematized. The big question integrating the volume concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve their potential as forms of political and personal (not necessarily individual) empowerment in our changing and challenging world. Chapters engage with these issues in relation to a diversity of case studies – for example, memorial gatherings, festivals, pilgrimages, worship services, dances, shamanic and interreligious ceremonies. They are the result of a four-year collaboration between international researchers who regularly gathered to discuss and debate emerging perspectives, analyses and conclusions. Before we introduce the chapters which form the three parts of this book, we outline the nature and processes of our shared project. This book arises from a four-year (2013–2017) project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Entitled Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource(abbreviated as REDO), the project enabled a team of eighteen international scholars to pursue original research and to meet regularly for sustained face-to-face discussion of emerging themes and issues. In addition, other experts in the study of both ritual and democracy were invited to workshops which enhanced and (re-)shaped the team’s thinking, approaches and emerging conclusions. Participants included anthropologists, philosophers, political scientists and scholars of religion and ritual.The REDO project, prompted by the 2011 far-right terrorist killings in Norway, was based on the recognition that people and communities are currently faced with complex crises and changes in culture, environment, religion, language, media, economy and technology.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

210.1 CZA r

Penerbit

USA : Bloomsbury Academic., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

265 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350123038

Klasifikasi

210.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Theory of Philosophy of Religion

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