Ritual Making Women : Shaping Rites for Changing Lives /

Ritual Making Women : Shaping Rites for Changing Lives / Jan Berry.

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"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Berry, Jan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxon, England : Routledge, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Gender, Theology and Spirituality.
Subjects:
Liturgics.
Feminist theology.
Christian women > Religious life.
Life change events > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Ritual.
Women > Religious life.
Life change events > Religious aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One Exploring the Power of Ritual
  • chapter Two 'Sisters are Doing It For Themselves' 1
  • chapter Three Whose Story is It Anyway? an Exploration of Methodology
  • chapter Case Study One Letting Go and Moving on--Carol's Story
  • chapter Four Thresholds and Passages: Negotiating Change in Women's Ritual Making
  • chapter Case Study Two Knots and Dreams--clare's Story
  • chapter Five Shapes and Patterns: Women's Ritual Making as Transformative Practice
  • chapter Case Study Three Shells and Fish--Jane's Story
  • chapter Six Re-(w)riting the Self: Narrative, Identity and Agency
  • chapter Case Study Four The Name That's Yet to Be--Jackie's Story
  • chapter Seven Private or Public?
  • chapter Case Study Five This is My Body: Nicola's Story
  • chapter Eight Performing the Body: Ritual, Sacrament and Embodied Theology
  • chapter Nine Re-imaging Rites: Where Next for Women's Ritual Making?

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