Handbook of Disaster Ritual: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes (Liturgia Condenda, 32)

Summary: The Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is 'translated ritually'. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals. This online edition of the book is open access; https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042946491.pdf - 689 pages. v-viii https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042946491.pdf 689 pages list of figures and tables ix Preface xiii introduction Paul Post 1 Introduction. Some conceptual and historiographical explorations on ritual, disaster and disaster ritual Part i – general PersPectives georg frerks & dorothea hilhorst 51 1. Disaster Studies. Perspectives between nature and ritual sanem Yazicioğlu 69 2. Event, contingency and unexpectedness in social philosophy antonY Pemberton 85 3. A victimology of corona. The disaster of our times Joanna WoJtkoWiak 107 4. Grief, trauma and meaning making after disaster douglas davies 121 5. Death studies and disasters. Ritualizing and numbering numbing realities rami isaac & merel siJm 137 6. Restoring a negative destination image. The case of Palestine erik borgman 157 7. “Groaning inwardly while waiting for the redemption of our bodies”. Toward a theology of trauma Part ii – case studies Yu fukuda 177 8. Coping with suffering in a memorial ceremony after the 2011 tsunami in Japan andreW J strathern & Pamela J steWart 191 9. The Pacific islands. Encounters with disaster and ritualized responses ken foote & tang Yong 203 10. The great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. Dark tourism, seismic memorials, and disaster rituals albertina nugteren, hans hadders & roJisha Poudel 219 11. Ke garne? (What can one do?). How people ‘on the ground’ perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015 brigitte benz 241 12. German central commemoration of the Germanwings air crash 2015 herman l beck 255 13. When paradise became hell. The 2002 Bali bombings and their post-disaster ritual practices and repertoires birgit Pfeifer & andré mulder 281 14. School shootings and rituals. The case of Parkland, Florida in 2018 lars Johan danbolt & hans stifoss-hanssen 297 15. Ritualizing after the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011 Paul Post 313 16. ‘Refugee ritual’. Ritual practices in connection with the Mediterranean refugee crisis siri driessen 333 17. Walking the Marš Mira. War, tourism and ritual practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina célestin nsengimana 347 18. Genocide commemoration in Rwanda. Remembrance of the dead and the performance of missed funeral rituals rima nasrallah 361 19. The Armenian genocide commemoration. A dynamic demand of memory martin J m hoondert & sam van alebeek 381 20. Blood Brothers. The Armenian genocide commemorated in art projects Walter van beek & Jan-bart geWald 397 21. The glory of disaster. The Herero Flag Marches marcel barnard & cas WePener 419 22. Commemorating the struggle against colonialism in Freedom Park, Pretoria david clarke 437 23. Making a space for ritual. Regime loyalists after the end of the German Democratic Republic heleen e zorgdrager 453 24. #MeToo as a ritual response to the slow-moving disaster of sexual violence mirella klomP & marcel barnard 471 25. Ritualization in the context of the global food crisis ernst m conradie 493 26. How could Baptism cleanse us with polluted water? sébastien P boret & Yu fukuda; david clarke; albertina nugteren; P amela J steWart & andreW strathern; cas W ePener; Joanna WoJtkoWiak; hans stifoss-hanssen & lars Johan danbolt 509 27. Ritualizing the covid-19 pandemic. Global impressions Part iii – selected themes tom bentleY 535 28. State apology. The simultaneously hegemonic and brittle ritual Paul Post 549 29. Relics. The ritual role of traces and remnants kees de groot 569 30. Disaster theater. Play when things go awry albertina nugteren 585 31. Shocked in more ways than one. Media (re)presentation of improvised funerary activities after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal Paul Post 605 32. E-rituals in the coronavirus context larissa hJorth & kathleen m cumiskeY 621 33. The mobile witness. Mobile media affective witnessing dur- ing disasters suzanne van der beek 635 34. ‘You’ll die of old age, I’ll die of climate change!’ Children and disaster rituals about the authors 651 index 661 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_00_CV 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_00_VW 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_01_Introduction 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_02_1-Frerks&Hilhorst 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_03_2-Yazicioglu 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_04_3-Pemberton 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_05_4-Wojtkowiak 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_06_5-Davies 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_07_6-Isaac-Sijm 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_08_7-Borgman 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_09_8-Fukuda 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_10_9-Strathern-Steward 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_11_10-Foote&Yong 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_12_11-Nugteren-Hadders&Poudel 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_13_12-Benz 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_14_13-Beck 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_15_14-Pfeifer-Mulder 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_16_15-Danbolt&Stifoss-Hansen 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_17_16-Post 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_18_17-Driessen 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_19_18-Nsengimana 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_20_19-Nasrallah 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_21_20-Hoondert&vanAlebeek 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_22_21-vanBeek&Gewald 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_23_22-Barnard-Wepener 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_24_23-Clarke 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_25_24-Zorgdrager 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_26_25-Klomp&Barnard 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_27_26-Conradie 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_28_27-Global-impression 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_29_28-Bentley 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_30_29-Post 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_31_30-deGroot 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_32_31-Nugteren 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_33_32-Post 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_34_33-Hjorth&Cumiskey 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_35_34-vanderBeek 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_36_35-About-the-authors 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_37_Index 102809_Handb-of-dis-rit_LC32_38_Lijst012 The Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is 'translated ritually'. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals.-- Provided by publisher, cover The 'Handbook of Disaster Ritual' presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is 'translated ritually'. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices.00The 'Handbook of Disaster Ritual' consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals