The study of liturgy used to mean studying what Christians did in
the past and how worship traditions developed over the centuries.
The focus was especially on liturgical texts. Now the spotlight is
on liturgical actions--what people do in worship, how they do it,
and what their actions mean. And a comparative dimension is added:
no longer looking only at the Christian past, scholars now look at
the global present and compare what Christians say and do in
worship with analogous actions in various religious and cultural
settings.
New perspectives require new methods. Enter ritual studies, a
discipline built on methods and insights developed by
anthropologists. "Foundations in Ritual Studies" offers an
anthropological and theological approach to the study of Christian
liturgy, providing key essays for an orientation to this fruitful
new approach.
Contributors
Romano Guardini, Mark Searle, and John D. Witvliet on the
application of ritual studies to Christian liturgies
Mary Douglas and Victor Turner on the anthropological basis for
ritual studies
Nathan D. Mitchell, Ronald L. Grimes, and Catherine Bell on
ritual
Margaret Mary Kelleher on liturgical theology
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