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Breemer, Rosemarie van den; Casanova, José; Wyller, Trygve

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“…All events were more or less public, with free, non-religious, open-air festivals at one end of the spectrum and publicly announced services in a church building at the other end. Both secular events, such as the opening of the local theatre season, and religious events, such as a church service in the context of a jazz festival, were included; and sometimes the secular and the religious appeared to be intertwined ( van den Breemer et al, 2014 ). Secular events with references to religion, such as a Dionysian theatrical performance by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch at an international art festival, drew my attention in particular; regular religious services that were not publicly advertised were excluded.…”

Section: Playing the Holy Game In Contemporary Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bingo! Holy play in experience-oriented society

Groot

2017

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What place is there for holy play in experience-oriented society? Is it possible and useful to make analytic distinctions between the liturgical quality of events? I explored these questions by doing research on the boundaries between the religious field and the field of leisure. Fifty site visits to public events in the Netherlands (2006–2014) resulted in a collection of ethnographic data. I used the concept of play as introduced by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga and the tools of ritual studies to explore whether these could help to produce an account of the liturgical quality of ritualized meetings. Holy play might be found in unexpected places, such as in a bingo hall. Huizinga’s broad diagnosis of modernity may be outdated, but the tools he introduced remain useful to distinguish the elements that constitute late-modern meetings as more or less playful – even when this involves combinations that seem contradictory from Huizinga’s own point of view.

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Section: Playing the Holy Game In Contemporary Societymentioning

confidence: 99%