Devising Order - Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice

A collection of case-studies on Ritual and Performance spanning four continents, this book offers an insightful travel guide through a thick forest of approaches and methods in a field that has increasingly weighed on the research agenda in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

About the author

Bruno Boute, PhD in History (2003), Catholic University of Leuven, is a researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte, Germany. He publishes on religious history, history of the papacy, and the history of universities in Early Modern Europe

Thomas Småberg, PhD in History, (2004), Göteborg University, is Lecturer in History and History Teaching at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published on social networks and friendship in the Middle Ages, and is currently conducting research on Swedish medieval ritual and gender.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bruno Boute (Editor), Thomas Småberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2012
• EAN: 9789004236745
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23674-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Brill's Church History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries