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Joy Palacios is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on how large organizations, including churches and businesses, use performance and ritual to foster devotion, generate authority, maintain institutions, and forge communities. Palacios employs historical and ethnographic methods in her highly interdisciplinary work. In her recent book, 'Ceremonial Splendor: Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), she uses archival methods and performance theory to study priestly training and liturgical practices in early modern France (1630-1730), aiming to understand how the Catholic Church sought to renew authority by differentiating priests from the masses through performances. Her early modern projects delve into the concept of 'modesty' in bodily experience and religious expression, while also reflecting on the strategies for encountering the unknown in New France. Additionally, Palacios examines how corporations in North America utilize performance and ritual to connect employees with their organizational mission through her project supported by the Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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