Author
Nathan Mitchell
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Published
January 1999
Today's Price
£13.94
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Liturgy and the Social Sciences
Today's Price £13.94
Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Author
Nathan Mitchell
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Published
January 1999
£13.94
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Liturgy and the Social Sciences
Today's Price £13.94
In his letter to liturgists meeting in Mainz, Germany, in 1964, theologian Romano Guardini asked: Is ritual a forgotten way of doing things?" That question challenged Catholics to reevaluate the roots and roles of ritual. In an ongoing response to that challenge, liturgists have sought to reinterpret the multiple meanings of ritual using insights from the social sciences. In Liturgy and the Social Sciences, Nathan Mitchell examines the responses of liturgists to Guardini's famous question. In the first chapter Mitchell focuses on Aidan Kavanagh, OSB, a noted U.S. liturgist that undertook the challenge of answering Guardini's question. He explains how Father Kavanagh's innovative call for a new discipline - a "political science" of behavior - was taken up by American liturgists in a "classical" or "high church" mode that emphasized ritual action as traditional, authoritative, repetitive, conservative, and "canonical." The second chapter examines how the "high church consensus" began to unravel as a result of critical work done on "emerging ritual" by Ronald Grimes and David Kertzer.
These scholars argued that new categories were needed to understand how ritual connects with social life and explained the characteristics of "emerging ritual" as innovative, untraditional, unpredictable, playful, and short term. In the third chapter Mitchell explores some of the proposals that a new generation of anthropologists have made for interpreting ritual. He gives attention to the research of Talal Asad, who suggests that rituals are a "technology" aimed at producing "virtuous selves." Michel Foucalt's "technologies of the self" is also discussed in this chapter. Although written for directors of liturgy, Liturgy and the Social Sciences will also appeal to DREs, clergy and religious, directors of adult formation, persons working with candidates in RCIA, and students and teachers of liturgy who want to look beyond what we do to understand why we do it. Nathan D. Mitchell, PhD, is Associate Director for Research at the Center for Pastoral Liturgy, University of Notre Dame. Six times a year, he writes "The Amen Corner" for Worship. In 1998, the North American Academy of Liturgy presented him with its Berakah Award.
Other books by Mitchell that have been published by The Liturgical Press include Cult and Controversy, Mission and Ministry, and Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith. He also contributed to The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology."
Author
Nathan Mitchell
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Published
January 1999
Weight
113g
Page Count
96
Dimensions
135 x 209 x 8 mm
ISBN
9780814625118
ISBN-10
0814625118
Eden Code
1161804
More Information
Author/Creator: Nathan Mitchell
ISBN: 9780814625118
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date: January 1999
Weight: 113g
Dimensions: 135 x 209 x 8 mm
Eden Code: 1161804