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

Theodore M. Vial

ISBN 10: 0415966981 / ISBN 13: 9780415966986

Published by Routledge 2003-12-01, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich (Religion in History, Society and Culture)
• Publisher: Routledge 2003-12-01
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415966981
• ISBN 13: 9780415966986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

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