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1.1 Definitions

Kirk
Scots term meaning church. Used in the same sense as church, for example: local parish kirks (churches); the Kirk (Church); and also kirk (church) architecture.
Performance
There is no adequate multidisciplinary definition of performance, and as it is widely used throughout this article some early clarification is required (Carlson 2004, 1; Inomata and Coben 2006b, 12). Todd (2002) defines church discipline as the performance of a distinct ritual; however, it is here considered an inseparable part of a wider experience—an act within the performance of a culture of discipline, sin and shame. Therefore, following Hodder (2006), it is considered that performance encompasses not only public spectacle, but also certain 'everyday' experiences. Performance here, therefore, refers both to background experiences, which facilitated reform through their performance, and also the spectacle of public discipline. Consequently, emphasis is placed on the margins between these two, in which performance is both a cultural production and a means of producing culture (Pearson and Shanks 2001, 15, 27; Mitchell 2006, 398).
Translation
Used to describe a mode of communicating unfamiliar culture or language or practice that accounts for a deficit in cultural capital by providing necessary social and physical referents in order to achieve as close to the original understanding or experience as possible.

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