Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform

Torevell, Dr. David

ISBN 10: 0567087204 / ISBN 13: 9780567087201

Published by T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform
• Publisher: T.& T.Clark Ltd
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567087204
• ISBN 13: 9780567087201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

This book argues that the liturgical reforms initiated by the second Vatican Council may have seriously undermined contemporary Roman Catholic worship.

Drawing on important work by Durkheim, Bauman, Foucault, Turner, Duffy, Flanagan and Pickstock, David Torevell focuses on the most crucial element of Catholic worship - the experience of the sacred - and examines how it has been eroded since pre-modern times, largely due to the marginalisation of ritual expression, and its consequences.

A devastating critique of the loss of the sacred in worship, this striking interdisciplinary study is a call for revitalisation of Roman Catholic liturgy through a 'reform of the reform' and the reclamation of the importance of the body in ritual expression.

About the Author

Dr David Torevell is Senior Lecturer in Theology, Liverpool Hope University College.