Description - Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource by Graham Harvey
This open access 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.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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