Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche; Michael Hubbard MacKay

doi:10.5771/9781793644909

Summary

Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints.

Liminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represents complex social theories beyond Turner’s classical symbolic approach. While demonstrating the enduring relevance of Turner’s language for expressing transition, this volume keeps an eye toward the validity of critiques against him. It thus theorizes with Turner’s work while updating, even abandoning, some of his primary ideas, when applying it to contemporary social issues.

A central focus of this volume is marginality. Turner recognized that marginals, like liminars, are betwixt and between; however, they lack assurance that their ambiguity will be resolved. This volume explores the dialogic relationship of space and agency, to recognize marginal groups and people, and inquire, without a harmonious resolution, what happens to the marginals? Have race, class, gender, and sexual orientation become the space for thinking about reintegration and communitas? Each chapter examines how marginal groups, or liminal spaces and ideas, destabilize, shape, and affect the dominant culture.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4489-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4490-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 320
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Critical Liminality No access
2. Liminality without: Marginalized Communities No access
3. Liminality within: Group Interaction within the Liminal Space No access
4. Within and without: Liminality and Dialogue No access
5. Liminality as an Agent of Change No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The History of the Community No access
  2. Marginalism and the “Power of the Weak” as a Religious Trope in Abrahamic Scripture No access
  3. Marginalization as a Tool of Power for the African Hebrew Israelites No access
  4. The Power to Define No access
  5. Conclusion: Eschatological Implications (What Happens to Those In-between?) No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Why Liminality? No access
  2. Liminality and Identity Transition among Algerian Converts No access
  3. From Dehumanizing to Liberating Marginality No access
  4. Liberated and Liberating Liminality No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Moving Forward, While Still Looking Backward No access
  2. Rites of Passage No access
  3. Border-Crossing and Liminality No access
  4. Living with the Others, as Other No access
  5. A New World, a New Self No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Porches as Places No access
  2. Ritual Signs or Idle Hands No access
  3. Graffiti and Prayer—Making the Liminal Ritual No access
  4. The Ritual Construction and Maintenance of the Liminal Entrance No access
  5. Becoming a Liminal Space and a Liminal Place No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Liminal Phases as Performative Schemas No access
    2. Liminality in the Margins: Between Structure and Agency No access
  2. 1. Liminal Frames: Temporary Thresholds No access
    2. Thresholds: Limits, Pitch, and Swells No access
    3. Liminal Efficacy: Rites of Passage and the Forge No access
    4. The Liminal as Transitional Resting Point No access
    5. Liminality, Apprenticeship, and Reflexivity No access
    6. Public Reflexivity and Collective Performance No access
  3. 1. Fiesta de la virgen de Sagrario No access
    2. Crafting Social and Aesthetic Performance No access
    3. Thresholds of Creativity No access
    4. The Determinacy of Indeterminacy No access
  4. 1. Technologies of Enchantment No access
    2. materia prima No access
    3. The Mastery of Un-mastery No access
    4. Failure, Sin, Freedom, and Choice No access
  5. 1. Contingencies and Liminality No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. A Dance Troupe in the Gap No access
  2. Liminality, Social Drama, and the Liminal Becoming No access
  3. Floating Sense of Belonging No access
  4. Ben’s Withdrawal No access
  5. Kai’s Pregnancy No access
  6. The New Collaboration in Floating Horizons No access
  7. Dancing in the Liminal Time No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Problem of Polygamy No access
  2. The Ritualization of LDS Marriage Rites No access
  3. Sealing and Marriage Rites No access
  4. Polygamy and Its Downfall No access
  5. Polygamy Did Not Go Away No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Solomon ibn Verga and his Sheveṭ Yehudah No access
  2. Pre-Liminal No access
  3. 1. Trying the Christian Monarch in a Halakhic Court No access
    2. Ephraim’s Coded Response to King Pedro’s Question No access
    3. The Question of Conversion No access
  4. Post-Liminal No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Intermediality No access
  2. Three Stages of the Intermedial Creative Process No access
  3. Play and Ludic Strategies for Playful Creativity No access
  4. Falling: An Insider’s Reading No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
2. 1. The Sources No access
  2. Women Who Preached for Islam No access
  3. Conversion Using Reason No access
  4. "He Is a Noble Man!" No access
  5. Exercising Agency No access
  6. Sisterhood across Religious Boundaries No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
3. 1. 1. Sivers and the First Follower Theory No access
  2. 1. Transforming the Lone Nut into a Leader No access
    2. Being Alongside the Leader and Treated as an Equal by the Leader No access
    3. Being Imitated by Other Followers No access
    4. Sharing the Social Risk No access
    5. Providing an Underappreciated Form of Leadership No access
    6. Summary No access
  3. 1. Acknowledging the Prophetic Mission No access
    2. The First Convert No access
    3. Marriage: The Comforting Loving Wife No access
    4. Wife and Mother No access
    5. Personal Traits No access
    6. Liminality Acknowledged No access
    7. Summary No access
  4. Khadījah, Liminality, and the Reconstruction of Early Female Characters in Islam No access
  5. Summary No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. Liminality without No access
2. Liminality within No access
3. Within and Without No access
4. Liminality and Change No access
Index No access Pages 313 - 316
About the Contributors No access Pages 317 - 320