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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Post, Paul, 1953- (Editor), Hoondert, Martin J. M., 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2019]
Series:Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Subjects:
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.