The Rite of Urban Passage : : The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation / / Reza Masoudi.
The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that commemorates the tragic massacre of Hussein a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. The Spatial Manifestation of Ritual
- CHAPTER 1 Towards a Framework for Spatially Studying Religious Rituals
- CHAPTER 2 The Spatial Genealogy of Muharram Rituals
- PART II The Spatial Organization of Ritual
- CHAPTER 3 The Traditional Muharram Processions
- CHAPTER 4 The Rite of Urban Passage
- CHAPTER 5 Entwining Past and Present in Performed Space
- CHAPTER 6 Reinventing Muharram Rites
- CONCLUSION An Urban-Spatial Approach to Muharram Rituals
- Bibliography
- Index