LIMINALITY: RECENT AVATARS OF THIS NOTION IN A SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT
Abstract
The main research question of this article concerns the value of the concept of liminality and its concomitant concepts such as communitas for liturgical studies in South Africa by the year 2012 as pertaining to the wider South African social context. Firstly a brief general historical overview of the origins of the concept and its avatars is provided, followed by discussion of the functioning of the concept in theological literature as it operated during four different periods in recent South African history. Throughout the historical survey ritual examples based on the author’s own experiential truth are provided to illustrate the points made, as well as a selection from the oeuvre of the South African poet and author Antjie Krog.Downloads
Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
This is an open access journal, and the authors and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.
Authors may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.
A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:
- Non-commercial personal webpage or blog.
- Institutional webpage.
- Authors Institutional Repository.
The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in Scriptura, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI. Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub) may be found.
Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.
Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.
The following license applies:
