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Past Event: Remythologizing the Cosmos: Ritualization in the Anthropocene as Epistemic Justice

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https://ism.yale.edu/events/2024-10-28-remythologizing-the-cosmos-ritualization-in-the-anthropocene-as-epistemic-justice
Miller Hall
406 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511
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The imposition of colonial power in globalization proceeded in part by devaluing indigenous ritual ways of knowing. Taking this as a starting point, in this presentation Kimberly Hope Belcher will explore the value of contemporary ritualizations that reanimate the cosmos. Responses to ecodisasters require the recovery of cosmological flexibility, including subjunctive or fictional participation in rites that project a world of animals, spirits, gods, and monsters.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the ISM Liturgy Symposium Series.

Photo credit: “Trees of Llanganuco, Cordillera Blanca, Perú” Inti Runa Viajero on flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0.

Contact: Katya Vetrov

Kimberly Hope Belcher

Kimberly Hope Belcher is Associate Professor of Theology in Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently the President of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, a Research Associate of Stellenbosch University, and serves on the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Board of Calvin Institute for Christian Worship as well as on three U.S. ecumenical dialogues.

Belcher’s research is in liturgical and sacramental theology, ritual studies, and ecumenical theology. Her current book project, which encompasses this presentation, concerns the role of ritual in responses to crisis in contemporary pluralistic cultural environments.