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Title Devising order : socio-religious models, rituals, and the performativity of practice / edited by Bruno Boute, Thomas Smaberg
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 60. Religious history and culture series ; volume 7
Brill's series in church history ; d. 60.
Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; 7.
Contents Introduction : Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice / Bruno Boute and Thomas Smaberg -- The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver : A Flemish dinner play performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565 / Wim Francois -- Death as the guest of honour : the social constructions of funeral rites in southern Sweden, 1880-1949 / Anna Stark -- Giving public space a face : The Agency of Monuments and Portraits, Thailand and the Netherlands compared / Irene Stengs -- Making space for performativity : publics, powers, and places in a Multi- Register Town Festival (Bondoukou, Cote d'Ivoire) / Karel Arnaut -- Place, power, and prophecy : ritual space and speech among the Yucatec Maya from colonial time to present time / Bodil Liljefors Persson -- Reinventing the apostolic tradition : transition and appropriation in the Medieval Commemoration of the Apostles / Els Rose -- Affirming Papal supremacy-shaping Catholicism : the readjustment of symbolic resources at the post-trent Roman court / Julia Zunckel -- The Ritual Battle of Tournament : Tornej, Dust, and Bohord in medieval Sweden ca. 1250- 1320 / Thomas Smaberg -- European and Chinese controversies over rituals : a seventeenth-century genealogy of Chinese religion / Eugenio Menegon -- Engineering the sacred : perspectives for research into sacramental practice and conflicts over sacraments in the seventeenth century / Bruno Boute -- The Jesuit ordering : in between the imaginative force of the art of memory and the organizational power of accounting practices / Paolo Quattrone -- Concluding remarks : rituality, performativity, history, and religion / Joris Van Eijnatten
Summary A collection of case-studies on Ritual and Performance spanning four continents, this book offers an insightful travel guide through a thick forest of approaches and methods in a field that has increasingly weighed on the research agenda in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Rites and ceremonies.
Ritual.
Religion and sociology.
sociology of religion.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Religion and sociology
Rites and ceremonies
Ritual
Form Electronic book
Author Boute, Bruno
Småberg, Thomas, 1970-
LC no. 2012033204
ISBN 9789004240032
9004240039
9781283854450
1283854457