Performing religion in public [Texte imprimé] / edited by Claire Maria Chambers, Simon W. du Toit and Joshua Edelman

Notes bibliogr.

Publics and the non-democratic state. The market for argument / Simon W. du Toit -- Public acts of private devotion: from silent prayer to ceremonies in France's early seminaries / Joy Palacios -- The Durban passion play: religious performance, power and difference / Michael Lambert and Tamantha Hammerschlag -- Visceral publics. Church on/as stage: Stewart Hedlam's rhetorical theology / Tom Grimwood and Peter Yeandle -- The intolerable, intimate public of contemporary American street preaching / Joshua Edelman -- Faith, fright, and excessive feeling / Kris Messer -- Publics and commodification. Congregations, audiences, actors: religious performance and the individual in nineteenth-century Nottingham / Jo Robinson and Lucie Sutherland -- Sufi ceremonies in private and public / Esra Cizmeci -- From religion to culture: the performative puja and spectacular religion in India / Saayan Chattopadhyay -- Ephemeral publics. Coming out of the (confessional) closet: Christian performatives, queer performativities / Stephen D. Seely -- Performing Jewish sexuality: mikvah spaces in orthodox Jewish publics / Shira Schwartz -- Busking and the performance of generosity: a political economy of the spiritual gift / Claire Maria Chambers