Performing the Reformation
Public Ritual in the City of Luther
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 September 2010
- ISBN 9780199739714
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A field study of religious tourism and festivity in contemporary Germany.
MoreLong description:
The home of Martin Luther for thirty six years and seat of the German Reformation, Wittenberg, Germany is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Wittenberg has long been Protestant sacred space, but since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city and surrounding region have been developing their considerable cultural capital. Today, Wittenberg is host to two large-scale annual Luther-themed festivals, and is becoming a center for pilgrimage and heritage tourism. In a recent study, Charles Taylor notes that festivity is experiencing a renaissance as "one of the new forms of religion in our world." Festivals and pilgrimage routes are an integral part of contemporary religion and spirituality, and important cultural institutions in a globalized world.
In Performing the Reformation, Stephenson offers a field-based case study of contemporary festivity and pilgrimage in the City of Luther. Welcome to Lutherland, where atheists dress up as monks and nuns for Luther's Wedding; conservative Lutherans work to sacralize the secular, carnival-like festivities; and medieval players, American Gospel singers, and Peruvian pan flute bands compete for the attention of the bustling crowds. Festivals and tourism in Wittenberg include a range of performative genres (parades and processions, liturgies and concerts, music and dance), cut across multiple cultural domains (religion, politics, economics), and effect connections and shifts among identities (religious, secular, American, German, traditional, postmodern). Incorporating visual methodologies and grounded in historical and social contexts, Stephenson provides an on-the-ground account of the annual Luther's Wedding Festival, the Reformation Day Festival, and Lutheran pilgrimage. He also brings his case study into dialogue with important methodological and theoretical issues informing the fields of ritual studies and performance studies.
A model of interdisciplinary research, the book includes a DVD with over 2.5 hours of material, extending and animating textual accounts and interpretations.
Future historians of the Luther Decade and the coming quincentennial of the Reformantion will undoubtedly count Performing the Reformation as one of their most cherished sources for its rich images of the contested state of Luther and the Reformation today.
Table of Contents:
Illustrations
Introdcution: APPROACHING LUTHERLAND
1. OPENING THE DOOR
2. THE WITTENBERG FESTIVALS
3. A MIGHTY FORTRESS?
4. MARTIN LUTHER, GERMAN HERO
5. SOCIABILITY, CONVIVIALITY
6. THE CARNIVALESQUE, PROCESSING CHANGE
7. PILGRIMAGE, SACRED SPACE
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
Bibliography
Index
DVD CONTENTS
Introduction (9:49)
Legend to Portal (6:46)
Wedding Montage (3:46)
Tetzel at the Doors (4:38)
Confirmands (4:04)
The Animators (40:32)
Processing (24:09)
Music (2:37)
Martin (3:11)
Lutherland-Fatherland (23:22)
Worship (38:32)
Extras
Images of Luther's Wedding, 2005 (PowerPoint)
Luther Protests (PowerPoint)
Reformation Day Brochure, 2005 (pdf)
Luther's Wedding Brochure, 2005(pdf)
Selected Websites (pdf)
Yale Conference Paper, Sensory Overload (pdf)
* Extras are accessible by opening the disc in a computer's DVD-ROM drive
