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Infelicitous Performances

14 January 2010

I’ve been working intermittently for about 30 years (first as a writer of feminist/neopagan rituals, and then as a sort of wildcat theorist) on the question of aesthetics in liturgical language. Of course there’s more to ritual than language, but the words surrounding ritual actions can make or break them: they may not be infelicitous [...]

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