Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-54292-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion

This book brings together leading international scholars with the aim of exploring ritual perspectives in the study of contemporary religions. It combines significant theoretical and methodological reflections and applies it to four main fields relevant to the study of contemporary religions: indigeneity; new spiritualities and ecology; lived religion (with Islam and Africa as case studies); and finally, religion and embodiment.

The structure and content of the book takes its point of departure from the research topics and collegial network of the internationally acclaimed scholar of ritual studies, Professor Anne-Christine Hornborg. The book is dedicated to her.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brissman, Ive

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brissman, Ive

Linjamaa, Paul

Makeeff, Tao Thykier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ritual Creativity, Ive Brissman, Paul Linjamaa and Tao Thykier Makeeff

Part I. Ritual and Indigenous Religion

1. Earthen Spirituality or Cultural Genocide? Radical Environmentalism’s Appropriation of Native American Spirituality, Bron Taylor

2. The Return of Mi’kmaq to Living Tradition, Graham Harvey

3. Cosmologies of the Earth and Ether: Spirituality and Sociality among the Mi’kmaq, Warlpiri, and Maori, Michael Jackson

4. Subsumed Rituals: The Intrinsic Implications of Divination and Powerful Things among the Eastern Penan of Malaysian Borneo, Mikael Rothstein

5. Where is Here?, Ronald Grimes

Part II. Ritual, Ecology, and New Spiritualities

6. Financial Astrology: Taking Divination into the Heart of Capitalist Economy, Olav Hammer

7. Manipulating the Sticks: Reconstructing Aleister Crowley’s Use of Yijing Divination, Johan Nilsson

8. The Sounds of Silence: A Study of Minor Ritual Acts of Silence in Dark Green Spirituality, Ive Brissman

9. Durga is Also Living in Sweden: Celebrating a Hindu Festival in a Secular Setting, Göran Ståhle

Part III. Ritual and Body: Bodies as Rituals

10. Ritual Dance from a Philosophical Perspective, Erica Appelros

11. Transformation beyond the Threshold: The Reiterative Practice of Initiation in the Contemporary Initiatory Society Sodalitas Rosae Crucis (S.R.C.), Olivia Cejvan

12. Bringing Embodiment back to Antiquity: Manifesting Enlightenment through the Body in Valentinus’ Writings, Paul Linjamaa

13. "Man Who Catch Fly with Chopstick, Accomplish Anything": Ritualised Bodily Learning and the Pursuit of Excellence in the Martial Arts, Tao Thykier Makeeff

Part IV. Rituals in Regional Perspectives: African Christianity and Islam

14. Al-salat: The Ritual of Rituals in Islam, Jonas Otterbeck

15. Ritual Fields and Participation in the Alevi Festival in Hacibektas, Hege Markussen

16. Who Got the Rite Wrong? The Mavuno Alternative Christmas Service and Charismatic Ritual, Martina Björkander

17. A Ritual that Turned the World upside down: The Kimbanguist Annulment of Ham’s Curse, Mika Vähäkangas

Appendix

Anne-Christine Hornborg - Friend and Colleague, Olle Qvarnström

Bibliography of Professor Anne-Christine Hornborg

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Linjamaa, Ph.D. (1984), Lund University, is associate Professor in Religious Studies at that university. He has published monographs and articles on early Christianity and the reception of ancient religions in modernity, including The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (Brill, 2019).

Ive Brissman, Ph.D. (1966), Lund University, is Post-doctoral research fellow at that university. Brissman currently works on a project on woodland cemeteries and sustainability in Sweden and has previously published articles and works on a monograph on dark green spirituality in the Anthropocene.

Tao Thykier Makeeff, Ph.D. (1978), Lund University. His recent research deals with the reception of antiquity among contemporary Hellenic Polytheists as well as contemporary "Viking" identities and the reception of Scandinavian religious history. He has published chapters and articles on a variety of subjects and is currently preparing his first monograph for publication.