STAGING SACRED SPACE: A Ritual Performance History of the UMD Memorial Chapel

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dc.contributor.advisorFrederik, Laurieen_US
dc.contributor.authorCyr, Reneeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T06:30:36Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T06:30:36Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study addresses the interconnections between belief, ritual, and space. Through an examination of the Memorial Chapel archive, I trace the history of Memorial Chapel from its founding in 1952 through today, focusing on the tension between sacred space and secularism. In this project I examine how religious groups have created and utilized sacred space in a non-denominational chapel as well as in a nontraditional worship spaces on and around campus. This investigates how the chapel itself performs and how participants of religious life perform their faith at a public university. I examine the role of theatricality in shaping religious rituals and giving them potency. In the second part I document my ethnographic research with Lutheran Campus Ministry.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2SP2F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19509
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligious historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPerformanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReligionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRitualen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUniversity of Marylanden_US
dc.titleSTAGING SACRED SPACE: A Ritual Performance History of the UMD Memorial Chapelen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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