Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are chang

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relati

An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, di

Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually. Drawing upon theology, philosophy, political sciences, anthropology, sociology