Ritual Resistance and Liberation

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>While ritual creates a shared and conventional world of human sociality and expresses and controls the meaning of experience it also functions to set boundaries and promote normativity. This volume explores the intersections of ritual with mechanisms and forces of power such as patriarchy tradition colonialism authoritarianism and capitalism on the one hand and ritual's potential for resistance resilience and restoration on the other hand. With links to ten countries - Argentina Belgium Brazil India Mexico the Philippines Singapore South Africa South Korea and the USA - the twelve contributors collectively demonstrate the ways in which ritual can operate as a mode of resistance and liberation. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This collective work invites the reader to discursive and performative ritual spaces where painful histories are revisited traumas of oppression are healed and impossible futures of coexistence and flourishing are reimagined. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This book is part of a new series of volumes co-published with the Council for World Mission's DARE (Discernment and Radical Engagement) programme.</span></p>