TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey, Graham...[et al.]
AU  - Salomonsen,Jone
AU  - Houseman,Michael
AU  - Pike,Sarah M
TI  - Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource 
SN  - 9781350185043
U1  - SS10.3 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
N1  - Part 1 Ritual and democracy
1. Improvising ritual Ronald L. Grimes
2. Hospitable democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of
crisis Agnes Czajka
Part 2 Reassembling communities
3. Enchanting democracy: Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic
rituals Gregory Delaplace
4. Indigenous rituals remake the larger-than-human community Graham Harvey
5. Becoming autonomous together: Distanced intimacy in dances of
self-discovery Michael Houseman
6. Walking pilgrimages to the Marian Shrine of Fátima in Portugal as
democratic explorations Anna Fedele
7. The interreligious Choir of Civilizations: Representations of
democracy and the ritual assembly of multiculturalism in Antakya,
Turkey Jens Kreinath
Part 3 Commemoration and resistance
8. The ritual powers of the weak: Democracy and public responses to
the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway Jone Salomonsen
9. The flower actions: Interreligious funerals after the Utøya
massacre Ida Marie Hoeg
10. Dealing with death in contemporary Western culture: A view from
afar Marika Moisseeff
11. Reinvented rituals as medicine in contemporary Indigenous films:
Malighati, Mahana and Goldstone Ken Derry
N2  - "This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This book is the result of collaborations between international researchers who have focused on diverse processes of democratic participation-and exclusion-that are intimately involved with ritual acts and complexes. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve their potential as forms of personal and political empowerment in our changing world. The authors seek to define the key terms "ritual" and "democracy" with reference to fieldwork-informed case studies from selected communities. They critically address democracy as a concept in a time of climate crisis, nationalism, religious re-traditionalizing, fake news and aspirational fascism. Furthermore, they discuss ways in which ritualized practices such as memorial gatherings, festivals, protest actions, pilgrimages and worship services give rise to modes of feeling, processes of representation, and patterns of interaction in which democratic explorations are given pride of place"--
ER  -