What Makes Saint Martin Come Marching In? On Facilitating Holy Play.
In the study of urban events on the boundaries between the religious and the secular, an underdeveloped theme is the facilitation and performance of sacrality. Two questions should be asked: to what extent is an event ritualized and sacralized and how is religion involved? A further question is how...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Religion Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 244 - 268 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2026
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