Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich (Religion in History, Society and Culture) - Softcover

Vial, Theodore M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415865050 ISBN 13: 9780415865050

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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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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 ofWendell S. Dietrich, and contributed the chapter on "Church and State in Schleiermacher's Thought" to TheCambridge Companion to FriedrichSchleiermacher.
Series Editors: Frank Reynolds and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415865050
• ISBN 13: 9780415865050
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212