Bodies in Sync: Interaction Ritual Theory Applied to Sacred Harp Singing

This paper applies “interaction ritual” theory (Collins 2004) to the case of “Sacred Harp” singing in the United States. We first situate the paper in a tradition of theorizing traced to Durkheim's analysis of “collective effervescence,” the key to which is that instead of merely expressing soc...

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Authors: Heider, Anne (Author) ; Warner, R. Stephen (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-97
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