Overview

Ritual Making Women looks at the way in which women's making of ritual has emerged from the rapidly developing field of women's spirituality and theology. The author uses ethnographic material to explore how the construction of ritual uses story-making and embodied action to empower women. Ritual, far from being a timeless and universal practice, is shown to be a contextual and gendered performance in which women subvert conventional distinctions of private and public. The book combines narrative and case study material and draws on feminist theology and theory, social anthropology and gender studies.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jan Berry ,  Lisa Isherwood ,  Marcella Althaus-Reid
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781845534141

ISBN 10:   184553414
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

1. Exploring the Power of Ritual 2. 'Sisters are doing it for themselves' 3. Whose Story Is It Anyway? An Exploration of Methodology Case Study One: Letting Go and Moving On - Carol's Story 4. Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual Making Case Study Two: Knots and Dreams - Clare's Story 5. Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual Making Case Study Three: Shells and Fish - Jane's Story 6. Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and Agency Case Study Four: The Name That's Yet to Be - Jackie's Story 7. Private or Public? The Communal Dimension of Women's Ritual Making Case Study Five: This is My Body: Nicola's Story 8. Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament, and Embodied Theology 9. Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual Making Appendix One: Summary of Data

Reviews

Berry pursues a wide-ranging discussion of issues involved in the construction and enactment of ritual and the effects of such ritual making. The interweaving of detailed descriptions of these case studies with discussion of theory related to ritualizing makes for a fresh and stimulating contribution to this field of study. -Practical Theology

Author Information

Jan Berry is a tutor in Practical Theology at Luther King House, Manchester, where she teaches pastoral studies, liturgy and worship, and feminist theology and spirituality on an MA and undergraduate programme in contextual theology. She is a minister of the United Reformed Church, and has considerable experience in creating and writing material for worship, particularly with women's groups. She has previously worked in local church ministry and university chaplaincy.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions