Ritual and Democracy

About this book

"This interdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume, contains seven research rich chapters exploring and critically assess conjunctions of ritual and democracy in a wide range of cultural and geographic contexts. The volume emerged out of a workshop held at the Open University in London in 2015, organized as part of the international research project, "Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource (REDO)," funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The authors of these chapters analyze instances of collective mourning and commemoration, festivals, ecological and political protest, and pilgrimage, and spiritual dance, through attention to the complex intersections of ritual, politics, and democracy"--