Ritual, Resistance, and Liberation

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 viiPreface xiAcknowledgements xiii1 Ritual Knowledge and Performance from the Margins 1Jin Young Choi Part 1 Gender Oppression and Ritual 2 The Impact of Religious Rituals and Ceremonies on Gender 21Gifta Angeline Kumar3 Cultural Crossroads: Women’s Ritual Participation in Northeast India and the Mainland 39Ajungla JamirPart 2 Colonialism and Indigenous Spiritualities of Liberation4 African Spiritualities and the Normalization of Ancestral Rituals in Brussels Afro-diasporic Contexts 59Christel Zogning Meli5 ‘The Absurdity of Joy’: Reclaiming Pinkster (Pentecostal) Rituals as Decolonial Indigenous Expressions of Existence, Resistance and Solidarity 80 Johnathan Jodamus6 Dancing, Drinking and Feasting: Rarámuri Worship During Holy Week Creates an Ecclesial Third Space 95Ángel F. Méndez MontoyaPart 3 Trauma, Spectrality and Ritual 7 Rituals of the (Para)normal: Spectrality, Trauma and Liberation in Latin America 115Miguel M. Algranti8 Conjure: A Womanist Perspective on Sacred Ritual 135Teresa L. SmallwoodPart 4 Ritual as a Site of Struggle and Transgression9 Liberating Liturgy: Liturgy as a Site of Struggle 153Gerald O. West10 Defiance and Democracy: Protests as Rites in Singapore 170Lynnette Xiangling LiPart 5 Rituals of Healing and Planetary Thriving11 Bearing Grief and Breathing Liberation: Rituals after the Anthropocene 185Cláudio Carvalhaes12 Release from the Tyranny of the Small Self: A Modern Subject’s Initiation into Indigenous Ritual 203S. Lily MendozaIndex 221

This important collection helps us see not only how ritual has mattered and does matter globally, but also how it will matter as a potent source for resistance and resilience in the face of the trials to come.