Handbook of disaster ritual :
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes
Edition: open access
Series: Liturga Condenda, 32  https://www.peeters-leuven.be/search_results.php?series=%22Liturgia+Condenda%22&lang=en&exact=true
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leuven BE
Language: eng
Format: open access
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9789042946484
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: We present the current volume of the series Liturgia Condenda as a
‘handbook’ of disaster rituals.
Description: Summary:
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.

This online edition of the book is open access; https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042946491.pdf - 689 pages.
Table of contents: title: v-viii https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042946491.pdf 689 pages; title: list of figures and tables ix; title: Preface xiii; title: introduction; title: Paul Post 1; title: Introduction. Some conceptual and historiographical explorations; title: on ritual, disaster and disaster ritual; title: Part i – general PersPectives; title: georg frerks & dorothea hilhorst 51; title: 1. Disaster Studies. Perspectives between nature and ritual; title: sanem Yazicioğlu 69; title: 2. Event, contingency and unexpectedness in social philosophy; title: antonY Pemberton 85; title: 3. A victimology of corona. The disaster of our times; title: Joanna WoJtkoWiak 107; title: 4. Grief, trauma and meaning making after disaster; title: douglas davies 121; title: 5. Death studies and disasters. Ritualizing and numbering; title: numbing realities; title: rami isaac & merel siJm 137; title: 6. Restoring a negative destination image. The case of Palestine; title: erik borgman 157; title: 7. “Groaning inwardly while waiting for the redemption of our; title: bodies”. Toward a theology of trauma; title: Part ii – case studies; title: Yu fukuda 177; title: 8. Coping with suffering in a memorial ceremony after the 2011; title: tsunami in Japan; title: andreW J strathern & Pamela J steWart 191; title: 9. The Pacific islands. Encounters with disaster and ritualized responses; title: ken foote & tang Yong 203; title: 10. The great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. Dark tourism, seismic memorials, and disaster rituals; title: albertina nugteren, hans hadders & roJisha Poudel 219; title: 11. Ke garne? (What can one do?). How people ‘on the ground’; title: perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015; title: brigitte benz 241; title: 12. German central commemoration of the Germanwings air; title: crash 2015; title: herman l beck 255; title: 13. When paradise became hell. The 2002 Bali bombings and; title: their post-disaster ritual practices and repertoires; title: birgit Pfeifer & andré mulder 281; title: 14. School shootings and rituals. The case of Parkland, Florida in; title: 2018; title: lars Johan danbolt & hans stifoss-hanssen 297; title: 15. Ritualizing after the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011; title: Paul Post 313; title: 16. ‘Refugee ritual’. Ritual practices in connection with the; title: Mediterranean refugee crisis; title: siri driessen 333; title: 17. Walking the Marš Mira. War, tourism and ritual practices in; title: Bosnia and Herzegovina; title: célestin nsengimana 347; title: 18. Genocide commemoration in Rwanda. Remembrance of; title: the dead and the performance of missed funeral rituals; title: rima nasrallah 361; title: 19. The Armenian genocide commemoration. A dynamic demand; title: of memory; title: martin J m hoondert & sam van alebeek 381; title: 20. Blood Brothers. The Armenian genocide commemorated in; title: art projects; title: Walter van beek & Jan-bart geWald 397; title: 21. The glory of disaster. The Herero Flag Marches; title: marcel barnard & cas WePener 419; title: 22. Commemorating the struggle against colonialism in Freedom; title: Park, Pretoria; title: david clarke 437; title: 23. Making a space for ritual. Regime loyalists after the end of; title: the German Democratic Republic; title: heleen e zorgdrager 453; title: 24. #MeToo as a ritual response to the slow-moving disaster of; title: sexual violence; title: mirella klomP & marcel barnard 471; title: 25. Ritualization in the context of the global food crisis; title: ernst m conradie 493; title: 26. How could Baptism cleanse us with polluted water?; title: sébastien P boret & Yu fukuda; david clarke; albertina; title: nugteren; P amela J steWart & andreW strathern; cas; title: W ePener; Joanna WoJtkoWiak; hans stifoss-hanssen &; title: lars Johan danbolt 509; title: 27. Ritualizing the covid-19 pandemic. Global impressions; title: Part iii – selected themes; title: tom bentleY 535; title: 28. State apology. The simultaneously hegemonic and brittle ritual; title: Paul Post 549; title: 29. Relics. The ritual role of traces and remnants; title: kees de groot 569; title: 30. Disaster theater. Play when things go awry; title: albertina nugteren 585; title: 31. Shocked in more ways than one. Media (re)presentation of; title: improvised funerary activities after the 2015 earthquake in; title: Nepal; title: Paul Post 605; title: 32. E-rituals in the coronavirus context; title: larissa hJorth & kathleen m cumiskeY 621; title: 33. The mobile witness. Mobile media affective witnessing dur-; title: ing disasters; title: suzanne van der beek 635; title: 34. ‘You’ll die of old age, I’ll die of climate change!’ Children; title: and disaster rituals; title: about the authors 651; title: index 661