عنوان

Performing religion in public

1137338636

9781137338631

b554909

Performing religion in public

[Book]

edited by Joshua Edelman, Claire Chambers, Simon du Toit.

Basingstoke

Palgrave Macmillan : [distributor] Not Avail

2013

304 p. : 4 b&w, ill., 1 maps

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Public Problem of Religious Doings --;Claire Maria Chambers, Simon W. du Toit and Joshua Edelman PART I: PUBLICS AND THE NON-DEMOCRATIC STATE 1. The Market for Argument --;Simon W. du Toit 2. Public Acts of Private Devotion: From Silent Prayer to Ceremonies in France's Early Seminaries --;Joy Palacios 3. The Durban Passion Play: Religious Performance, Power and Difference --;Michael Lambert and Tamantha Hammerschlag Discussion PART II: VISCERAL PUBLICS 4. Church on/as Stage: Stewart Hedlam's Rhetorical Theology --;Tom Grimwood and Peter Yeandle 5. The Intolerable, Intimate Public of Contemporary American Street Preaching --;Joshua Edelman 6. Faith, Fright, and Excessive Feeling --;Kris Messer Discussion PART III: PUBLICS AND COMMODIFICATION 7. Congregations, Audiences, Actors: Religious Performance and the Individual in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham --;Jo Robinson and Lucie Sutherland 8. Sufi Ceremonies in Private and Public --;Esra Cizmeci 9. From Religion to Culture: The Performative Puja and Spectacular Religion in India --;Saayan Chattopadhyay Discussion PART IV: EPHEMERAL PUBLICS 10. Coming Out of the (Confessional) Closet: Christian Performatives, Queer Performativities --;Stephen D. Seely 11. Performing Jewish Sexuality: Mikvah Spaces in Orthodox Jewish Publics --;Shira Schwartz 12. Busking and the Performance of Generosity: A Political Economy of the Spiritual Gift --;Claire Maria Chambers Discussion.

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere.

Performance -- Religious aspects.

Public worship.

Religious groups: social & cultural aspects.

edited by Joshua Edelman, Claire Chambers, Simon du Toit.

Claire Chambers

Joshua Edelman

Simon Du Toit

[Book]

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