Practicing Catholic Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith

by Morrill, Bruce T.; Rodgers, Susan; Ziegler, Joanna E.

• ISBN13: 9781403972965
• ISBN10: 1403972966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection explores Catholicism as a faith grounded in ritual practices. Ritual, encompassing not only the central celebration of Mass but popular ceremonies and devotional acts, comprises a base for Catholicism that requires both constant engagement of the human body and negotiation of various types of power, both human and divine. Practicing Catholic brings together top scholars from various backgrounds to explore methodologies for studying ritual and Catholicism. Scholars focus their essays on particular aspects of ritual within Catholic practice. The collection is divided into six easy-to-follow sections: Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual Practice, Catholic Ritual in History, Contemporary Ritual Practices of Healing, Catholic Ritual as Political Practice, Contemporary Mass Media as a Domain for Catholic Ritual Practice, and a final section drawing them together.

Author Biography

Bruce T. Morrill is Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Boston College. Susan Rodgers is Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross. Joanna E. Ziegler is Professor, Department of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Part I Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual Practice	1	(24)
Introduction	3	(22)
Bruce T. Morrill
Susan Rodgers
Joanna E. Ziegler
Part II Catholic Ritual: Practice in History	25	(56)
Introduction	25	(4)
Joanna E. Ziegler
The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say about Symbol and Ritual?	29	(14)
Gary Macy
Commentary: Ritual Efficacy: Cautionary Questions, Historical and Social Anthropological	38	(5)
Anthony Cashman
Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages	43	(16)
Frederick S. Paxton
Commentary: No Time for Dying	53	(6)
Edward H. Thompson, Jr.
Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages	59	(14)
Joanne M. Pierce
Commentary: Body-Critical Embodiment	68	(5)
Jennifer Knust
Race, Religion, and the Emerging Modern World: Indians, Incas, and Conspiracy Stories in Colonial Peru	73	(8)
Irene Silverblatt
Part III Contemporary Ritual Practices of Healing	81	(54)
Introduction	81	(2)
Bruce T. Morrill
The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis	83	(16)
Therese Schroeder-Sheker
Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion	99	(16)
Bruce T. Morrill
Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches	115	(20)
Bruce T. Morrill
Commentary: Embodiment, Integration, and Authenticity: Keys to Reshaping the Catholic Sacramental Imagination	130	(5)
Judith Marie Kubicki
Part IV Catholic Ritual as Political Practice	135	(48)
Introduction	135	(4)
Susan Rodgers
The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village	139	(18)
Matthew N. Schmalz
The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia	157	(12)
Daniel M. Goldstein
Making Christ Credible: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism and the Liberating Nearness of God	169	(14)
Roberto S. Goizueta
Commentary: The Paradoxical Character of Symbols, Popular Religion, and Church: Questions for U.S. Latino/a Theology	179	(4)
James B. Nickoloff
Part V Contemporary Mass Media as a Domain for Catholic Ritual Practice	183	(60)
Introduction	183	(2)
Susan Rodgers
The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History	185	(18)
Vicente L. Rafael
The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond	203	(24)
Susan Rodgers
Commentary: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and Media Sociology	223	(4)
John Schmalzbauer
Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts	227	(16)
Mathew N. Schmalz
Part VI Conclusion: Between Theory and Practice	243	(32)
Introduction	243	(4)
Joanna E. Ziegler
Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of ``Historical Sensation''	247	(10)
Joanna E. Ziegler
The Liturgy of Theory	257	(18)
Christopher A. Dustin
Commentary: The Medicine of Philosophy	270	(5)
William E. Stempsey
Epilogue: Reflections at Vespers	275	(2)
Katherine M. McElaney
Notes on Contributors	277	(2)
Notes on Commentators	279	(2)
Notes	281	(34)
Index of Subjects	315	(6)
Index of Names	321

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