In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Time and Narrative

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Social capital: a theory of social structure and action

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General/Theoretical Anthropology: From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play

Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. Catherine Bell

Reviewed Medium: book
 Year: 2006
 Pages: 576
 Publisher: Sage Publications
 ISBN: 1-4129-0039-5 (hard cover). Prices: $125.00 USD(hard cover).

Handbook of Material Culture

This article offers the case study of a contemporary mediatized Christian passion event that takes place annually in the public sphere in the Netherlands. Contributing to debates in various studies...

The Passion as ludic practice—understanding public ritual performances in late modern society: a case study from the Netherlands

The Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora

This article focuses on the interaction of African churches with the local social, political and religious ecology of Amsterdam Southeast in their search for worship space. It shows the continuing importance of the local, even for such transnational religious movements as African churches. Constructing a worship location confronts the churches with the 'ingrained orders of social power in the host society' (Favell 2003). They encountered familiar black – white distinctions, a legion of 'white helpers' and a long process of building trust. I argue that African churches use transnational and local strategies. Becoming part of the local is inspired by missionary motives and is related to the character of religious congregations as relatively fixed organisations which nurture a practice of engagement with local society. Cet article se concentre sur l'interaction des eglises africaines avec l'ecologie locale au niveau sociale, politique et religieuse du Sud-est d'Amsterdam dans leur recherche de l'espace de culte. Cela demontre l'importance ininterrompue du local, meme pour des mouvements religieux transnationaux comme les eglises africaines. La construction d'un espace de culte confronte les eglises avec « les ordres enracines du pouvoir social dans la societe hote » (Favell 2003). Ils rencontrent la distinction habituelle entre noir et blanc, une legion d'« aide blanche » et un long processus de construire la confiance. Je soutiens que des eglises africaines utilisent des strategies transnationales et locales. Devenir une partie des locaux est inspire par des motifs de missionnaire et est rapproche du caractere des congregations religieuses comme les organisations relativement fixes qui elevent une pratique d'engagement avec la societe locale.

The Continuing Importance of the Local. African Churches and the Search for Worship Space in Amsterdam

This article describes the developments of the EO Youth Day, a Dutch Christian mass event that attracts thousands of young people every year. It is argued that in the course of time, the EO Youth Day has changed from a modest and sober event characterized by a Calvinist outlook to an expressive ‘hip’ event with an evangelical swing. This change becomes especially visible when the first versions of the EO Youth Day in the 1970s are compared with more recent ones—a comparison we shall make in this article. Central to this change is the way the body is addressed and referred to in what we call the ‘forms of embodiment’ offered at the EO Youth Day. Evidence for this is provided by an explorative empirical study of four EO Youth Days—those organized in 1977, 1987, 1999, and 2008.

"Can we dance in this place?": Body Practices and Forms of Embodiment in Four Decades of Dutch Evangelical Youth Events

Two cases in which researchers take part in religious ritual show how being a participant enhances the researcher’s understanding of what is happening. Through these cases the authors attempt to shed light on the methodological problems concerning the “intersubjectivity” of research on ritual. Ritual goes beyond the verbal and pulls bodily sensations, emotion and gestures into the domain of intersubjectivity established through fieldwork. Experiencing the emotional and physical sensations that accompany ritual give the researcher a clue as to what other participants experience. But maybe more importantly, the participation of the researcher also triggers reflections on the meaning and efficacy of the ritual. These verbalized interpretations of what has happened may further strengthen the researcher’s understanding. The authors argue that it is exactly through putting this intersubjectivity at the centre of both the actual fieldwork and the subsequent analysis that the ever flexible and contested nature of ritual and the dynamic tension between semantic and tacit meaning can be most fruitfully explored.

Marten van der Meulen

Papers

The Passion as ludic practice—understanding public ritual performances in late modern society: a case study from the Netherlands

The Role of Spatial Practices and Locality in the Constituting of the Christian African Diaspora

The Continuing Importance of the Local. African Churches and the Search for Worship Space in Amsterdam

"Can we dance in this place?": Body Practices and Forms of Embodiment in Four Decades of Dutch Evangelical Youth Events

Why participation matters to understand ritual experience