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Practicing Catholic

Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith

  • Editors
  • Bruce T. Morrill
  • Joanna E. Ziegler
  • Susan Rodgers
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
      PDF
    2. Introduction
      Bruce T. Morrill, Susan Rodgers, Joanna E. Ziegler
      Pages 3-23

  3. Catholic Ritual: Practice in History

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 25-27
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    2. The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say about Symbol and Ritual?
      Gary Macy
      Pages 29-41
    3. Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages
      Frederick S. Paxton
      Pages 43-57
    4. Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages
      Joanne M. Pierce
      Pages 59-71
    5. Race, Religion, and the Emerging Modern World: Indians, Incas, and Conspiracy Stories in Colonial Peru
      Irene Silverblatt
      Pages 73-80

  4. Contemporary Ritual Practices of Healing

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 81-82
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    2. The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis
      Therese Schroeder-Sheker
      Pages 83-97
    3. Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion
      Bruce T. Morrill
      Pages 99-114
    4. Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches
      Bruce T. Morrill
      Pages 115-133

  5. Catholic Ritual as Political Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 135-137
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    2. The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village
      Mathew N. Schmalz
      Pages 139-155
    3. The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia
      Daniel M. Goldstein
      Pages 157-167
    4. Making Christ Credible: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism and the Liberating Nearness of God
      Roberto S. Goizueta
      Pages 169-182

  6. Contemporary Mass Media as a Domain for Catholic Ritual Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 183-184
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    2. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History
      Vicente L. Rafael
      Pages 185-201
    3. The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond
      Susan Rodgers
      Pages 203-226
    4. Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts
      Mathew N. Schmalz
      Pages 227-241

  7. Conclusion: Between Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 243-245
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    2. Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of “Historical Sensation”
      Joanna E. Ziegler
      Pages 247-255
    3. The Liturgy of Theory
      Christopher A. Dustin
      Pages 257-273
    4. Epilogue: Reflections at Vespers
      Katherine M. Mcelaney
      Pages 275-276
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 277-325
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About this book

Introduction

This book brings together top scholars from various backgrounds to explore methodologies for studying ritual and Catholicism. The essays focus on particular aspects of ritual within Catholic practice, such as liturgy and performance and healing rituals.

Keywords

care Integration mass media methodology Nation philosophy politics religion ritual practices sociology sociology of religion

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