Reassembling Democracy

Jone Salomonsen is Professor ofTheology at the University of Oslo, Norway.Michael Houseman is Professor in the Religious Studies section, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France.Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico, USA.Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK.The editors have significant publication lists and their interests span the study of religion(s), ritual, ecology, performance, indigeneity and contemporary social movements.

• 0. “Introduction”, Graham Harvey, Michael Houseman, Sarah Pike and Jone Salomonsen Part One: Ritual and Democracy 1. “Improvising ritual”, Ronald L. Grimes 2. “Hospitable democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of crisis”, Agnes Czajka Part Two: Re-assembling communities 3. “Enchanting democracy: Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic rituals”, Gregory Delaplace 4. “Indigenous rituals re-make the larger than human community”, Graham Harvey 5. “Becoming autonomous together: Distanced intimacy in dances of self-discovery”, Michael Houseman 6. “Walking pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Fátima in Portugal as democratic explorations”, Anna Fedele 7. “The interreligious Choir of Civilizations: Politics of religious representation and ritual identity in Antakya (Antioch), Turkey”, Jens Kreinath Part Three: Commemoration and resistance 8. “The ritual powers of the weak: Democracy and public responses to the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway”, Jone Salomonsen 9. “The Flower actions: Interreligious funerals after the Utøya massacre”, Ida Marie Høeg 10. “Dealing with death in contemporary Western culture: A view from afar”, Marika Moisseeff 11. “Reinvented rituals as medicine in contemporary Indigenous films: Maligluitt, Mahana, and Goldstone”, Ken Derry