Ritual and Democracy

Sarah M. Pike is Professor of Comparative Religion and Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. Jone Salomonsen is professor of Theology on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. Paul-Francois Tremlett is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University.

• IntroductionSarah M. Pike, Jone Salomonsen and Paul-François TremlettPart 1: ProtestsChapter 1: Rituals of Resistance and the Struggle over Democracy in TurkeyAgnes Czajka, The Open UniversityChapter 2: Making Ritual Enactments Political: Free Speech after the Charlie Hebdo AttacksZaki Nahaboo, Birmingham City UniversityChapter 3: A Tale of Two Energies: The Political Agency of ThingsPaul François TremlettPart 2: PublicsChapter 4: Affective Communitas and Sacred Geography: Mapping Place and Movement in Norwegian PilgrimageMarion Grau, MF Norwegian School of TheologyChapter 5: How to Do Things with Rituals, or: Disrupting Protestant Lutheran Theology, Converting Refugees and their Appropriation of the EucharistGitte Buch-Hansen, University of CopenhagenPart 3: PerformancesChapter 6: Dances of Self-development as a Resource for Participatory DemocracyMichael Houseman, PSL Research University, France, and Marie Mazzella di Bosco, PhD Candidate, Paris Nanterre UniversityChapter 7: Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and EmplacementGraham Harvey, The Open University