Performing Religion in Public

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: The Public Problem of Religious Doings....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
The Market for Argument....Pages 27-48
Public Acts of Private Devotion: From Silent Prayer to Ceremonies in France’s Early Seminaries....Pages 49-70
The Durban Passion Play: Religious Performance, Power and Difference....Pages 71-86
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Church on/as Stage: Stewart Headlam’s Rhetorical Theology....Pages 97-116
The Intolerable, Intimate Public of Contemporary American Street Preaching....Pages 117-133
Faith, Fright, and Excessive Feeling....Pages 134-152
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Congregations, Audiences, Actors: Religious Performance and the Individual in Mid-Nineteenth-century Nottingham....Pages 163-178
Sufi Ceremonies in Private and Public....Pages 179-193
From Religion to Culture: The Performative Pūjā and Spectacular Religion in India....Pages 194-208
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Coming Out of the (Confessional) Closet: Christian Performatives, Queer Performativities....Pages 219-236
Performing Jewish Sexuality: Mikveh Spaces in Orthodox Jewish Publics....Pages 237-255
Busking and the Performance of Generosity: A Political Economy of the Spiritual Gift....Pages 256-277
Back Matter....Pages 286-290