Ritual, Resistance, and Liberation

A Global Intersectional Perspective

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2025
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-06635-4 (ISBN)

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While ritual creates a shared and conventional world of human sociality and expresses and controls the meaning of experience, it also functions to set boundaries and promote normativity. This volume explores the intersections of ritual with mechanisms and forces of power such as patriarchy, tradition, colonialism, authoritarianism, and capitalism on the one hand and ritual’s potential for resistance, resilience, and restoration on the other hand. With links to ten countries - Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA - the twelve contributors collectively demonstrate the ways in which ritual can operate as a mode of resistance and liberation. This collective work invites the reader to discursive and performative ritual spaces where painful histories are revisited, traumas of oppression are healed, and impossible futures of coexistence and flourishing are reimagined.
This book is part of a new series of volumes co-published with the Council for World Mission’s DARE (Discernment and Radical Engagement) programme.

Dr Jin Young Choi is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair in Biblical Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

Contributors vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Ritual Knowledge and Performance from the Margins 1
Jin Young Choi
Part 1 Gender Oppression and Ritual
2 The Impact of Religious Rituals and Ceremonies on Gender 21
Gifta Angeline Kumar
3 Cultural Crossroads: Women’s Ritual Participation in Northeast India and the Mainland 39
Ajungla Jamir
Part 2 Colonialism and Indigenous Spiritualities of Liberation
4 African Spiritualities and the Normalization of Ancestral Rituals in Brussels Afro-diasporic Contexts 59
Christel Zogning Meli
5 ‘The Absurdity of Joy’: Reclaiming Pinkster (Pentecostal) Rituals as Decolonial Indigenous Expressions of Existence, Resistance and Solidarity 80
Johnathan Jodamus
6 Dancing, Drinking and Feasting: Rarámuri Worship During Holy Week Creates an Ecclesial Third Space 95
Ángel F. Méndez Montoya
Part 3 Trauma, Spectrality and Ritual
7 Rituals of the (Para)normal: Spectrality, Trauma and Liberation in Latin America 115
Miguel M. Algranti
8 Conjure: A Womanist Perspective on Sacred Ritual 135
Teresa L. Smallwood
Part 4 Ritual as a Site of Struggle and Transgression
9 Liberating Liturgy: Liturgy as a Site of Struggle 153
Gerald O. West
10 Defiance and Democracy: Protests as Rites in Singapore 170
Lynnette Xiangling Li
Part 5 Rituals of Healing and Planetary Thriving
11 Bearing Grief and Breathing Liberation: Rituals after the Anthropocene 185
Cláudio Carvalhaes
12 Release from the Tyranny of the Small Self: A Modern Subject’s Initiation into Indigenous Ritual 203
S. Lily Mendoza
Index 221

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-334-06635-2 / 0334066352
ISBN-13	978-0-334-06635-4 / 9780334066354
Zustand	Neuware