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Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality

Mind the Gap
Buch | Hardcover
326 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4489-3 (ISBN)
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary re-thinking about what it means to be “the marginal” within society. Using a supple notion of liminality as its framework, this book concurrently challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, while celebrating its continued influence and recasting into an interdisciplinary landscape.
Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints.

Liminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represents complex social theories beyond Turner’s classical symbolic approach. While demonstrating the enduring relevance of Turner’s language for expressing transition, this volume keeps an eye toward the validity of critiques against him. It thus theorizes with Turner’s work while updating, even abandoning, some of his primary ideas, when applying it to contemporary social issues.

A central focus of this volume is marginality. Turner recognized that marginals, like liminars, are betwixt and between; however, they lack assurance that their ambiguity will be resolved. This volume explores the dialogic relationship of space and agency, to recognize marginal groups and people, and inquire, without a harmonious resolution, what happens to the marginals? Have race, class, gender, and sexual orientation become the space for thinking about reintegration and communitas? Each chapter examines how marginal groups, or liminal spaces and ideas, destabilize, shape, and affect the dominant culture.

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche is assistant professor in Classical Islamic Religious Thought and Dialogue in Trinity College Dublin. Michael Hubbard MacKay is associate professor of religion at Brigham Young University.

Introduction: Mind the Gap: Betwixt and between Liminality and Marginality

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Michael Hubbard MacKay

Section One: Liminality Without: Marginalized Communities

Chapter One: Layers of Liminality and Marginality in the African Hebrew Israelite Community

Michael T. Miller

Chapter Two: Liberating Liminality in the Contemporary Church of Algeria

Patrick Brittenden

Chapter Three: “Neither here nor there”: Border-crossing and liminal states in Rose Tremain’s The Road Home

Maria Antonietta Struzziero

Section Two: Liminality Within: Group Interaction Within the Liminal Space

Chapter Four: Liminal Space and Liminal Place: The Medieval Church Porch

Jamie Ingram

Chapter Five: Hammering in-between: Liminality and Contingency in Artisanal Practice, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

Chapter Six: Liminality in Time: The Taipei Dance Circle as a Process

Yu-Chun Chen

Chapter Seven: Mormon Polygamy: Liminal or Normative?

Michael Hubbard MacKay

Section Three: Within and Without: Liminality and Dialogue

Chapter Eight: Liminal Dialogue: Solomon Ibn Verga’s Tale of Ephraim Ibn Sanjo and Kind Pedro I of Aragon

Eric Ziolkowski

Chapter Nine: Intermediality: Performing the Liminal in the Dance Work Falling

Pauline Brooks

Section Four: Liminality as an Agent of Change

Chapter Ten: The Pedagogics of Liminality: Ivan Illich and the Critique of Institutional Ritualization

José R. Irizarry

Chapter Eleven: Agents of Conversion: Agency of Women in Early Islam

Keren Abbou Hershkovits

Chapter Twelve: Wife and leader: Khadījah as a first follower

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche

Conclusion

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Michael Hubbard MacKay

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Patrick Brittenden, Pauline Brooks, Yu-Chun Chen
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 603 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-7936-4489-6 / 1793644896
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4489-3 / 9781793644893
Zustand Neuware
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