Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich
The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.
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Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich
The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.
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Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

by Theodore M. Vial
Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich
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Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

by Theodore M. Vial

Overview

The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415865050
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/11/2014
Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Theodore M. Vial is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He has published in Numen and the Harvard Theological Review. He co-edited Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich, and contributed the chapter on "Church and State in Schleiermacher's Thought" to The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher.
Series Editors: Frank Reynolds and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Religious Conflict in Zurich; Chapter 2 Contesting Humanity and Contesting History; Chapter 3 The Personality of God and Other Contradictions; Chapter 4 What Would Jesus Do?; Chapter 5 Meta Fights; Chapter 6 Liturgy Wars, Culture Wars;
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