The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

Reza Masoudi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-976-9 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that commemorates the tragic massacre of Hussein and his companions in 680 CE. In doing so, this volume offers not only an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, but also a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Reza Masoudi is a native southwestern Iranian who lives in London, where he is currently a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin. He is an urbanist whose work focuses on the geography of crowds and protests, urban violence, and studies of religious rituals in public spaces in Iran and India.

List of Figures

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

PART I: THE SPATIAL MANIFESTATION OF RITUAL

Chapter 1. Towards a Framework for Spatially Studying Religious Rituals

Chapter 2. The Spatial Genealogy of Muharram Rituals

PART II: THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF RITUAL

Chapter 3. The Traditional Muharram Processions

Chapter 4. The Rite of Urban Passage

Chapter 5. Entwining Past and Present in Performed Space

Chapter 6. Reinventing Muharram Rites

Conclusion: An Urban-spatial Approach to Muharram Rituals

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
Zusatzinfo	35 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-976-1 / 1785339761
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-976-9 / 9781785339769
Zustand	Neuware