RT Book
T1 Awkward rituals: sensations of governance in Protestant America
T2 Class 200, new studies in religion
A1 Logan, Dana Wiggins
LA English
PP Chicago London
PB The University of Chicago Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1778856071
AB Introduction -- Uncomfortable rites in Early Republican Freemasonry -- Conventional behavior in the America Bible Society -- Involuntary association in the American Seamen's Friend Society -- The head and the hands in Catharine Beecher's domesticity -- Epilogue : awkward ritual, once more with feeling.
AB "In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the Early Republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America's Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR525
SN 9780226818481
SN 9780226818504
K1 Rites and ceremonies : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Rites and ceremonies : United States : Case studies
K1 Protestants : United States : Social life and customs : 19th century
K1 WASPs (Persons) : United States : Social life and customs : 19th century
K1 United States : Civilization : 1783-1865
K1 United States : Social life and customs : 1783-1865
DO 10.7208/9780226818498.001.001