Ritual Making Women
Subtitle: Shaping Rites for Changing Lives
By: Jan Berry
Edition: First edition.
Series: Gender, Theology and Spirituality
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxon, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781315088655
Subjects: Liturgics; Feminist theology; Christian women; Religious life; Life change events; Christianity; Ritual; Women; Religious aspects; Liturgie; Théologie féministe; Rituel; Femmes; Vie religieuse; Événements stressants de la vie; Aspect religieux
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published 2009 by Equinox Publishing Ltd., an imprint of Acumen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One Exploring the Power of Ritual; title: chapter Two 'Sisters are Doing It For Themselves' 1; title: chapter Three Whose Story is It Anyway? an Exploration of Methodology; title: chapter Case Study One Letting Go and Moving on; title: Carol's Story; title: chapter Four Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual Making; title: chapter Case Study Two Knots and Dreams; title: clare's Story; title: chapter Five Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual Making as Transformative Practice; title: chapter Case Study Three Shells and Fish; title: Jane's Story; title: chapter Six Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and Agency; title: chapter Case Study Four The Name That's Yet to Be; title: Jackie's Story; title: chapter Seven Private or Public?; title: chapter Case Study Five This is My Body: Nicola's Story; title: chapter Eight Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament and Embodied Theology; title: chapter Nine Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual Making?