Introduction : Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice / Bruno Boute and Thomas Smaberg -- The Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver : A Flemish dinner play performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565 / Wim Francois -- Death as the guest of honour : the social constructions of funeral rites in southern Sweden, 1880-1949 / Anna Stark -- Giving public space a face : The Agency of Monuments and Portraits, Thailand and the Netherlands compared / Irene Stengs -- Making space for performativity : publics, powers, and places in a Multi- Register Town Festival (Bondoukou, Cote d'Ivoire) / Karel Arnaut -- Place, power, and prophecy : ritual space and speech among the Yucatec Maya from colonial time to present time / Bodil Liljefors Persson -- Reinventing the apostolic tradition : transition and appropriation in the Medieval Commemoration of the Apostles / Els Rose -- Affirming Papal supremacy-shaping Catholicism : the readjustment of symbolic resources at the post-trent Roman court / Julia Zunckel -- The Ritual Battle of Tournament : Tornej, Dust, and Bohord in medieval Sweden ca. 1250- 1320 / Thomas Smaberg -- European and Chinese controversies over rituals : a seventeenth-century genealogy of Chinese religion / Eugenio Menegon -- Engineering the sacred : perspectives for research into sacramental practice and conflicts over sacraments in the seventeenth century / Bruno Boute -- The Jesuit ordering : in between the imaginative force of the art of memory and the organizational power of accounting practices / Paolo Quattrone -- Concluding remarks : rituality, performativity, history, and religion / Joris Van Eijnatten