Ritualising cultural heritage and re-enchanting rituals in Europe /
Cultural heritage, public rituality and novel or unconventional religious practices have recently acquired an unprecedented centrality in Europe. Stemming from the past but operating in the present and branching out towards the future, these phenomena can function as catalyzers of cultural synergy (...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2024].
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Rethinking the festival and public rituality
- Rituality, ritualisation, and a theory of symbolic hierarchy
- From folklore to intangible cultural heritage
- The reconfiguration of festive and ritual culture in Europe
- Ethnographic case studies of re-enchantment and popular Frazerism
- The politics of culture and identity in European public rituals
- Ritualisation, (re-) traditionalisation, and mythopoiesis.