Cover -- Contents -- (Extra)Ordinary Presence. Social Configurations and Cultural Repertoires -- I. Whiteness and the Rules of Redemption: O rdinary and Transcendent Presences -- Caucasia's Capital. The Ordinary Presence of Whiteness -- Christian New Birth as an Experience of Presence. An Introduction to Its Theological Structure -- Preachers' Daughters. Discourses of Presence and the Sensation of 'Purity' -- II. Ab-Use, Paranoia, Decay: The (Extra)Ordinary Presence of the Past -- Heidegger Ab-Used. Thinking (Extra)Ordinary Presences between Place and Planet -- Persisting Presence. The JFK Assassination as Mediated Event -- "Still Standing Like Timeless Islands". The Presence of Postindustrial Spaces in The Ruins of Detroit (2010) -- III. The Cultural Specificit y of Presence: Rituals, Symbols, and Imagined Communities -- The Presence of Sacralization. The Configuration of Presence in Vladimir Sorokin's Kremlin Made of Sugar -- The Macrocontext of (Extra)Ordinary Presence. A Methodological Challenge -- Tea Flows. A Praxeological Perspective on Ritual -- Afterword. Bodily Presence and Absence -- List of Contributors. |