Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
Part I Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual Practice......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 36
2 The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say about Symbol and Ritual?......Page 40
Commentary: Ritual Efficacy: Cautionary Questions, Historical and Social Anthropological......Page 49
3 Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages......Page 54
Commentary: No Time for Dying......Page 64
4 Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages......Page 70
Commentary: Body-Critical Embodiment......Page 79
5 Race, Religion, and the Emerging Modern World: Indians, Incas, and Conspiracy Stories in Colonial Peru......Page 84
Introduction......Page 92
6 The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis......Page 94
7 Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion......Page 110
8 Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches......Page 126
Commentary: Embodiment, Integration, and Authenticity: Keys to Reshaping the Catholic Sacramental Imagination......Page 141
Introduction......Page 146
9 The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village......Page 150
10 The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia......Page 168
11 Making Christ Credible: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism and the Liberating Nearness of God......Page 180
Commentary: The Paradoxical Character of Symbols, Popular Religion, and Church: Questions for U.S. Latino/a Theology......Page 190
Introduction......Page 194
12 The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History......Page 196
13 The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond......Page 214
Commentary: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and Media Sociology......Page 234
14 Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts......Page 238
Introduction......Page 254
15 Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of \"Historical Sensation\"......Page 258
16 The Liturgy of Theory......Page 268
Commentary: The Medicine of Philosophy......Page 281
Epilogue: Reflections at Vespers......Page 286
Notes on Contributors......Page 288
Notes on Commentators......Page 290
Notes......Page 292
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