Liberating Rites

Author : Tom F. Driver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429711093
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberating Rites written by Tom F. Driver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how necessary ritual is to human freedom and to social processes of liberation. It aims to reflect upon the deep human longing for ritual and to interpret it in the light of our physical, social, political, sexual, moral, aesthetic, and religious existence. .

Author : Tom Driver
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813334554
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberating Rites written by Tom Driver and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as The Magic of Ritual.In his introduction to Liberating Rites, Tom Driver writes, “At its most elemental level, this book is a response to what I shall call ‘ritual boredom.' This is a condition in which people have become fundamentally weary of rituals available to them for giving their lives shape and meaning.” Driver proceeds to illuminate ritual anew by removing it from its liturgical wrappings and presenting it as something raw, basic, and central to all living beings. He then examines the varied ways humans use ritual to give order to their lives, to provide a sense of security and control, especially in the face of extreme danger (witness the new wave of pilgrimage to Oklahoma City federal building's fenced-off shell). From there, Driver looks closely at how ritual creativity and performance are central to enacting religious beliefs and how rituals serve to transform individuals into members of communities.

Author : R. Shea Watts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666791814
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Spirit Is written by R. Shea Watts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the experiential contours of Pentecostalism as a liberative praxis. The connection between Pentecostalism and social change is a burgeoning line of inquiry, particularly in the Global South, but this study focuses on the history of Pentecostalism in the US, beginning with the production and circulation of the African American Spirituals. Bringing theories of affect into conversation with ritual studies, this interdisciplinary work traces personal stories and experiences from the author and examines them in light of Pentecostal traditions that stem from the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California, the birthplace of the Pentecostal movement. William J. Seymour's vision at Azusa was egalitarian and transgressed the societal boundaries and norms of race and gender in the early twentieth century. Pentecostalism was and is informed by Black, queer, female, and other voices often silent or rendered invisible. Without this representation, Pentecostalism is simply one tradition among many co-opted and appropriated for the ongoing colonial projects of the modern Western world. Therefore, this book explores Blackpentecostal tradition: specifically, The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM), a predominately Black LGBTQ+ movement that integrates Pentecostal worship and theology with an inclusive, liberative theology.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356525
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liturgy and Ethics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from the Reformed tradition and its potential to contribute to the discussion about the connection between liturgy and ethics, this volume offers in-depth studies in how to understand God’s acting in worship, the centrality of justice, and the formative meaning of the liturgy.

Author : Tom Faw Driver
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Ritual written by Tom Faw Driver and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing colorful, moving depictions of rituals from Haiti, Papua New Guinea, and other places where communal celebration is a part of everyday life, cultural theologian Tom Driver presents an insightful and vivid examination of the role of authentic ritual in society and the need for it in modern life.

Author : Brooke N. Petersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793641153
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Trauma written by Brooke N. Petersen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people. Drawing on current scholarship in the field of trauma studies, the author makes a case for religious trauma as an important frame to understand the experiences of queer people in non-accepting faith communities. Though previous scholarship has limited the recovery from religious trauma to those who exit religious communities, in this research the author analyzes participant stories to understand how queer people might find healing in accepting religious communities. Using self-psychology to understand the depth of trauma experienced in non-accepting communities, the author explores the experience of God and sexual identity within non-accepting communities. Through these narratives, the author demonstrates the potential for post-traumatic growth and life beyond conservative faith communities. Petersen argues for a number of key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.

Author : Shah Hasan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543423035
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Rites: an Examination of Ritualization and Leadership in Faculty Professional Life written by Shah Hasan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the faculty of a small liberal arts college make meaning of their professional careers and their personal lives? In this book, based on a particular study at one small college in the Midwest, author Shah Hasan explores the narrative contours of the lives of four faculty membersFrancesca, Charles, Paula, and Rebecca. Utilizing the qualitative research approaches of extended interviews, narrative analysis, and narrative inquiry, the stories of their service at the college are excavated for patterns of ritualization and leadership.

Author : David J Cohen
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1780783035
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why O Lord? written by David J Cohen and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins by exploring a number of signposts in psalms' scholarship which alert us to the value of psalms as a form of prayer. The particular focus is lament psalms, and their potential as a form of prayer for people engaging with distressing experiences in life. What follows, is a discussion of lament as a process and the areas of potential change for someone who uses these psalms for prayer. The final section of the book includes stories of several people who prayed some of these psalms over a period of time. It explores their responses and reflections in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of praying psalms such as these. The book culminates with a chapter which invites the reader to pray some psalms of distress themselves with notes suggesting an appropriate ritual to follow and some ideas for further exploration. 'David J. Cohen's book, Why, O Lord?, provides a wonderful, comprehensive view of the psalms of lament. It is an encouragement to all Christian traditions to look with fresh eyes on the psalms as prayer, and particularly the psalms of lament, as our suffering, and the suffering of many in our world, needs the language to cry out to God in times of darkness. The psalms express every human emotion and use a strong confidence that we can cry out to God, and that God will hear our suffering, and that transformation is possible. Bringing the psalms of lament into ritual, so aptly described by Cohen, brings a new dimension to worship, both personal and communal. This book is an excellent academic and pastoral addition to our knowledge of the psalms.' Angela McCarthy, lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia: National President of the Australian Academy of Liturgy

Author : Jan Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550748
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Making Women written by Jan Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 women. Ritual, far from being a timeless and universal practice, is shown to be a contextual and gendered performance in which women subvert conventional distinctions of private and public. The book combines narrative and case study material and draws on feminist theology and theory, social anthropology and gender studies.

Author : A. Denise Starkey
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433106767
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shame that Lingers written by A. Denise Starkey and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shame That Lingers: A Survivor-Centered Critique of Catholic Sin-Talk, A. Denise Starkey argues that the dominant legal model of sin in the Catholic Church is inadequate for hearing the experience of sin for survivors of childhood and domestic violence because it functions to shame rather than to heal. A universal understanding of the sinner, as found in mainstream Catholic sin-talk and confession, impedes human flourishing by silencing radical suffering in ways that make survivors complicit for the harm done to them. Starkey argues that a shame-free theology of sin is necessary if survivors are to encounter the profound love of God. Understanding sin from the perspective of the sinned-against makes possible a transformative solidarity with the other by reinvisioning the roles of speaker and listener.