...This chapter develops the book’s analytical framework and situates the monograph within the field of studies on migration and religion. It argues that ritual performance can be used as a ‘cultural prism’ to shed new light on important themes in anthropological research on migration: social networks...

...This chapter analyses Iraqi women’s celebration of ‘Id al-fitr in order to explore the possibilities and difficulties of reconstructing religious ritual in a new social setting. For Iraqi families, ‘Id al-fitr comes to symbolize the ways in which they do not belong in Denmark, partly because...

... Processions Patriotism Civic ritual Chartism Streetscapes Manchester Leeds Processions are politics on the move. Parish authorities had always conducted ‘perambulations’ of their boundaries, and though the custom was fading in the most rapidly expanding urban areas, civic processions enacted a similar...

... feeling. Using the pantomimes of the prolific London manager and playwright, Nelson Lee, the chapter locates pantomimic topicality and political comment in the ritual and symbolic elements of pantomime as well as its resort to fantasy and excess. Following Poole and Sanders’ explorations...

... perhaps be seen as a continuance of those ritual exchanges, engineered on both sides, which, from the mid-nineteenth century, sought to define the relationship between Manchester Jewry and the civic authorities of the locality. In 1967 Eccles, a time and a place troubled by newer waves of immigration...

...Figure 9.1 Phase one: adorcism in the village and the wild Figure 9.2 Phase three: exorcism Chapter 9 presents a re-analysis of Victor Turner’s masterpiece, Chihamba, the White Spirit. The ritual drama in Turner’s account is tragic; against that, the re-analysis shows another genre of ritual...

...This chapter examines the ritual for church consecration and the paradigm that it sets up for the construction and interpretation of sacred space. The performance of the liturgical ritual unites building, community, and scripture, purifying and consecrating the space as an ideal location...

.... To remember the Covenanters was to keep alive the ideals they died for: the spiritual independence of the Church, the rejection of popish ritual and episcopacy, and – more broadly – the Scottish-national virtue of civil and religious liberty. This paper concentrates on commemorative practice as a means...

... Messenia Ideology Morale Violence Coercion Religion Ritual Group Ties Loyalty Takis Kapralos had served for less than a month in EDES when he wrote to his family to inform them that he was doing well and adapting quickly. His first impressions of the guerrillas were good; he found them amicable...

..., but also structure their interactions with others. Through the collective ritual of fandom, the ultras elevate themselves into a state of flow that brings the gathering of individual fans into one collective working in unison. Champions League chanting Europa League ritual UEFA banners choreography...

... and ritual staples. As local residents put it, ‘food was medicine’, and ‘now we are sick’. Many have left their respective village-based communities as itinerant laborers. One consequence of this livelihood shift has been the neglect of communal ritual life centered upon ancestral ‘sacred groves...

... on changes within the emotional self. The chapter engages with such concepts as sincerity and pretence and their relevance to arguments about the development of concepts of interiority, the purposes of public performance and ritual behaviour, and the elaboration and maintenance of the courtly persona in line...

... and analogue photography, with reference to bodies of water and their historical narratives. Reliving and documenting the ritual of plunging water in now stagnant waters, connections are transcribed across time and questions arise as to the power of water as a source of inspiration and revelation. barge...

... in response. In their attempts to minimise aid to individuals but maximise the number of households they could assist, the directors created a ritual of poor relief in which civic officials, religious leaders, and the poor themselves all performed key roles. This chapter argues that the hospital, operating...

... effects of solidarity, a positive emotional experience, in ‘Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex circle’, Irish argues that participation in social groups and their everyday rituals of court life operated to solidify solidarity and with it, factionalism...

...Recent scholarship on the parlements has minimized their differences with royal administrations. According to the current view, any disputes involving the parlements were less than fundamental, involving no vital interest, an artificial or ritual ballet in which both sides accepted unwritten rules...

...The second chapter focuses on the way in which parts of the youth articulated a specifically anti-regime critique and through it questioned some of the values embodied in contemporary politics and culture. In particular, it examines how older forms of political discourse and ritual - embodied...

...There was only one ceremony or blessing in the late Medieval Catholic rite that was reserved for laywomen -- the ritual purification or churching of a woman after childbirth. Despite the vulnerability of the traditional ceremony to charges of superstition, churching was retained in or reintegrated...

... klephts Balkan Wars Maidonis Faidon Special Operations Executive Germans Campbell John Romanos Giorgos Kossevakis family Patsis Giorgos Myers Edmund Operation Animals Chams EDES Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Sindesmos prison camps Zagori Ritual Socialisation Provisioning Oath Killing...

... Archbishop of Canterbury Surrey Wentworth Thomas Earl of Strafford Battle of Bothwell Bridge 1679 Devon cases of seditious words involving Calves Head Club Greaves Richard L Grey Thomas Earl of Stamford prisoners Rumsey John Rye House Plot 1683 rebellion 1685 Trenchard John Commemoration ritual...