Devising Order
Socio-religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice
Readership
All those interested in Ritual Studies, Religious History, European and Chinese History, African Studies, Meso-American Studies, Management History.
Table of contents
Note on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice
Bruno Boute and Thomas Småberg
The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver: A Flemish Dinner Play Performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565)
Wim François
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, Côte 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 Småberg
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
Bibliography
List of Referenced Authors
List of Figures
Introduction: Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice
Bruno Boute and Thomas Småberg
The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver: A Flemish Dinner Play Performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565)
Wim François
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, Côte 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 Småberg
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
Bibliography
List of Referenced Authors
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