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Performing Religion in Public

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Editors:
  1. Claire Maria Chambers

    1. Department of English and Linguistics, Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea

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  2. Simon W. Toit

    1. School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, Canada

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  3. Joshua Edelman

    1. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: The Public Problem of Religious Doings

    1. Introduction: The Public Problem of Religious Doings

      • Claire Maria Chambers, Simon W. du Toit, Joshua Edelman
      Pages 1-24

  3. Publics and the Non-Democratic State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. The Market for Argument

      • Simon W. du Toit
      Pages 27-48

    3. Public Acts of Private Devotion: From Silent Prayer to Ceremonies in France’s Early Seminaries

      • Joy Palacios
      Pages 49-70

    4. The Durban Passion Play: Religious Performance, Power and Difference

      • Michael Lambert, Tamantha Hammerschlag
      Pages 71-86

  4. Visceral Publics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Church on/as Stage: Stewart Headlam’s Rhetorical Theology

      • Tom Grimwood, Peter Yeandle
      Pages 97-116

    3. The Intolerable, Intimate Public of Contemporary American Street Preaching

      • Joshua Edelman
      Pages 117-133

    4. Faith, Fright, and Excessive Feeling

      • Kris Messer
      Pages 134-152

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 286-290
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About this book

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Linguistics, Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea

    Claire Maria Chambers

  • School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, Canada

    Simon W. Toit

  • Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

    Joshua Edelman

About the editors

Claire Maria Chambers, Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea Saayan Chattopadhyay, Baruipur College, Calcutta University, India Esra Çizmeci, Istanbul Ayd?n University, Turkey Simon W. du Toit, University of Windsor, Canada Joshua Edelman, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK Tom Grimwood, University of Cumbria, UK Tamantha Hammerschlag, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Michael Lambert, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Kris Messer, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA Joy Palacios, Vanderbilt University's Divinity School, USA Jo Robinson, University of Nottingham, UK Shira Schwartz, York University, Canada Stephen D. Seely, Rutgers University, USA Lucie Sutherland, University of Nottingham, UK Peter Yeandle, University of Manchester, UK

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