Absent ritual : exploring the ambivalence and dynamics of ritual /
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...
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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
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Table of 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.