Mother Town

Auteur: Neville, Gwen Kennedy (Elizabeth Root Paden Professor of Sociology, Elizabeth Root Paden Professor of Sociology, Southwestern University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
Neville examines the ceremony known as `the Common Riding' which occurs in the Scottish border towns, and explores its religious and ritual implications. She shows how the ceremony makes a dramatic statement about the town in question, engaging themes and symbolism related to local strife, communal independence, and Protestantism.
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Neville examines the ceremony known as `the Common Riding' which occurs in the Scottish border towns, and explores its religious and ritual implications. She shows how the ceremony makes a dramatic statement about the town in question, engaging themes and symbolism related to local strife, communal independence, and Protestantism.
ISBN / EAN 9780195088373
Auteur Neville, Gwen Kennedy (Elizabeth Root Paden Professor of Sociology, Elizabeth Root Paden Professor of Sociology, Southwestern University)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc