Ritual Making Women

Shaping Rites for Changing Lives

AvJan Berry

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Ritual Making Women looks at the way in which women's making of ritual has emerged from the rapidly developing field of women's spirituality and theology. The author uses ethnographic material to explore how the construction of ritual uses story-making and embodied action to empower women. Ritual, far from being a timeless and universal practice, is shown to be a contextual and gendered performance in which women subvert conventional distinctions of private and public. The book combines narrative and case study material and draws on feminist theology and theory, social anthropology and gender studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender, Theology and Spirituality
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781845534158

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Jan Berry is a tutor in Practical Theology at Luther King House, Manchester, where she teaches pastoral studies, liturgy and worship, and feminist theology and spirituality on an MA and undergraduate programme in contextual theology. She is a minister of the United Reformed Church, and has considerable experience in creating and writing material for worship, particularly with women's groups. She has previously worked in local church ministry and university chaplaincy.

Recensioner i media

"Berry pursues a wide-ranging discussion of issues involved in the construction and enactment of ritual and the effects of such ritual making. The interweaving of detailed descriptions of these case studies with discussion of theory related to ritualizing makes for a fresh and stimulating contribution to this field of study." – Practical Theology

Innehållsförteckning

1. Exploring the Power of Ritual2. 'Sisters are doing it for themselves'3. Whose Story Is It Anyway? An Exploration of MethodologyCase Study One: Letting Go and Moving On - Carol's Story4. Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual MakingCase Study Two: Knots and Dreams - Clare's Story5. Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual MakingCase Study Three: Shells and Fish - Jane's Story6. Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and AgencyCase Study Four: The Name That's Yet to Be - Jackie's Story7. Private or Public? The Communal Dimension of Women's Ritual MakingCase Study Five: This is My Body: Nicola's Story8. Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament, and Embodied Theology9. Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual MakingAppendix One: Summary of Data