Handbook of disaster ritual : multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes

Hoondert, Martin and Post, Paul and Klomp, M.C.M. and Barnard, Marcel, eds. (2021) Handbook of disaster ritual : multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes. Liturgia contenda, 32 . Peeters, Leuven. ISBN 9789042946491

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The Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is 'translated ritually'. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals. Introduction -- Introduction. Some conceptual and historiographical explorations on ritual, disaster and disaster ritual / Paul Post. Part I -- General Perspectives -- 1. Disaster studies. Perspectives between nature and ritual / Georg Frerks & Dorothea Hilhorst -- 2. Even, contingency and unexpectedness in social philosophy / Sanem Yazicioğlu -- 3. A victimology of corona. The disaster of our times / Antony Pemberton -- 4. Grief, trauma and meaning making after disaster / Joanna Wojtkowiak -- 5. Death studies and disasters. Ritualizing and numbering numbing realities / Douglas Davies -- 6. Restoring a negative destination image. The case of Palestine / Rami Isaac & Merel Sijm -- 7. "Groaning inwardly while waiting for the redemption of our bodies". Toward a theology of trauma / Erik Borgman. Part II -- Case Studies -- 8. Coping with suffering in a memorial ceremony after the 2011 tsunami in Japan / Yu Fukuda -- 9. The Pacific islands. Encounters with disaster and ritualized responses / Andrew J. Strathern Pamela J. Stewart -- 10. The great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. Dark tourism, seismic memorials, and disaster rituals / Ken Foote Tang Yong -- 11. Ke garne? (What can one do?). How people 'on the ground' perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015 / Albertina Nugteren, Hans Hadders Rojisha Poudel -- 12. German central commemoriation of the Germanwings air crash 2015 / Brigitte Benz -- 13. When paradise became hell. The 2002 Bali bombings and their post-disaster ritual practices and repertoires / Herman L. Beck -- 14. School shootings and rituals. The case of Parkland, Florida in 2018 / Birgit Pfeifer André Mulder -- 15. Ritualizing after the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011 / Lars Johan Danbolt Hans Stifoss-Hanssen -- 'Refugee ritual'. Ritual practices in connection with the Mediterranean refugee crisis / Paul Post -- 17. Walking the Marš Mira. War, tourism and ritual practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Siri Driessen -- 18. Genocide commemoration in Rwanda. Remembrance of the dead and the performance of missed funeral rituals / Célestin Nsengimana -- 19. The Armenian genocide commemoration. A dynamic demand of memory / Rima Nasrallah -- 20. Blood Brothers. The Armenian genocide commemorated in art projects / Martin J.M. Hoondert Sam van Alebeek -- 21. The glory of disaster. The Herero Flag Marches / Walter van Beek Jan-Bart Gewald -- 22. Commemorating the struggle against colonialism in Freedom Park, Pretoria / Marcel Barnard Cas Wpener -- 23. Making a space for ritual. Regime loyalists after the end of the German Democratic Republic / David Clarke -- 24. #MeToo as a ritual resonse to the slow-moving disaster of sexual violence / Heleen E. Zorgdrager -- 25. Ritualization in the context of the global food crisis / Mirella Klomp Marcel Barnard -- 26. How could Baptism cleanse us with polluted water? / Ernst M. Conradie -- 27. Ritualizing the COVID-19 pandemic. Global impressions / Sébastien P. Boret Yu Fukuda; David Clarke; Albertina Nugteren; Pamela J. Stewart Andrew Strathern; Cas Wepener; Joanna Wojtkowiak; Hans Stifoss-Hanssen Lars Johan Danbolt. Part III -- Selected Themes -- 28. State apology. The simultaneously hegemonic and brittle ritual / Tom Bentley -- 29. Relics. The ritual role of traces and remnants / Paul Post -- 30. Disaster theater. Play when thigs go awry / Kees de Groot -- 31. Shocked in more ways than one. Media (re)presentation of improvised funerary activities after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal / Albertina Nugteren -- 32. E-rituals in the coronavirus context / Paul Post -- 33. The mobile witness. Mobile media affective witnessing during disasters / Larissa Hjorth & Kathleen M. Cumiskey -- 34. 'You'll die of old age. I'll die of climate change!' Children and disaster rituals / Suzanne van der Beek.

Item Type:	Book
Titel:	Handbook of disaster ritual : multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes
Editors:	Editors Email Hoondert, Martin UNSPECIFIED Post, Paul UNSPECIFIED Klomp, M.C.M. UNSPECIFIED Barnard, Marcel UNSPECIFIED
Series Name:	Liturgia contenda
Volume:	32
Place of Publication:	Leuven
Publisher:	Peeters
ISBN:	9789042946491
Number of Pages:	668
Theologische Universiteit:	Protestantse Theologische Universiteit
Trefwoorden (EN):	Disasters Religious aspects Memorial rites and ceremonies Liturgics Ritual
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2022 08:41
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2022 08:41

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