INTRODUCTION
PAUL POST
Introduction. Some conceptual and historiographical explorations on ritual and disaster
PART I – GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
GEORG FRERKS & DOROTHEA HILHORST
Disaster Studies. Perspectives between nature and ritual
SANEM YAZICIOGLU
Event, contingency and unexpectedness in social philosophy
ANTONY PEMBERTON
A victimology of corona. The disaster of our times
JOANNA WOJTKOWIAK
Grief, trauma and meaning making after disaster
DOUGLAS DAVIES
Death studies and disaster. Ritualizing and numbering numbing realities
RAMI ISAAC & MEREL SIJM
Restoring a negative destination image. The case of Palestine
ERIK BORGMAN
Groaning inwardly while waiting for the redemption of our bodies. Toward a theology of trauma
PART II – CASE STUDIES
YU FUKUDA
Coping with suffering in a memorial ceremony after the 2011 tsunami in Japan
ANDREW J. STRATHERN & PAMELA J. STEWART
The Pacific islands. Encounters with disaster and ritualized responses
KEN FOOTE & TANG YONG
The great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. Dark tourism, seismic memorials and disaster rituals
ALBERTINA NUGTEREN, HANS HADDERS & ROJISHA POUDEL
Ke garne? (What can one do?). An exploration of how people ‘on the ground’ perceived the incomplete improvised mortuary rituals at Pashupatinath after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015
BRIGITTE BENZ
German central commemoration of the Germanwings air crash 2015
HERMAN L. BECK
When paradise became hell. The 2002 Bali bombings and their post-disaster ritual practices and repertoires
BIRGIT PFEIFER & ANDRÉ MULDER
School shootings and rituals. The case of Parkland, Florida in 2018
LARS JOHAN DANHOLT & HANS STIFOSS-HANSSEN
Ritualizing after the terror attacks in Norway, 22 July 2011
PAUL POST
‘Refugee ritual’. Ritual practices in connection with the Mediterranean refugee crisis
SIRI DRIESSEN
Walking the Marš Mira. War, tourism and ritual practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina
CELESTIN NSENGIMANA
Genocide commemoration in Rwanda. Remembrance of the dead and the performance of missed funeral rituals
RIMA NASRALLAH
The Armenian genocide commemoration. A dynamic demand of memory
MARTIN HOONDERT & SAM VAN ALEBEEK
Blood Brothers. The Armenian genocide commemorated in art projects
WALTER VAN BEEK & JAN-BART GEWALD
The glory of disaster. The Herero Flag Marches
MARCEL BARNARD & CAS WEPENER
Commemorating the struggle against colonialism in Freedom Park, Pretoria
DAVID CLARKE
Making a space for ritual. Regime loyalists after the end of the German Democratic Republic
HELEEN ZORGDRAGER
#MeToo as a ritual response to the slow-moving disaster of sexual violence
MIRELLA KLOMP & MARCEL BARNARD
Ritualization in the context of the global food crisis
ERNST M. CONRADIE
How could Baptism cleanse us with polluted water?
PART III – SELECTED THEMES
TOM BENTLEY
State apology. The simultaneously hegemonic and brittle ritual
PAUL POST
Relics. The ritual role of traces and remnants
KEES DE GROOT
Disaster theater. Play when things go awry
ALBERTINA NUGTEREN
Shocked in more ways than one. Media (re)presentation of improvised funerary activities after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
PAUL POST
E-rituals in the corona context
LARISSA HJORTH & KATHLEEN M. CUMISKEY
The mobile witness. Mobile media affective witnessing during disasters
SUZANNE VAN DER BEEK
‘You’ll die of old age, I’ll die of climate change!’ Children and disaster rituals
