Liturgy Wars

Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

Theodore M. Vial

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Routledge
01 December 2003

Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals

Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.

By: Theodore M. Vial
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780415966986
ISBN 10: 0415966981
Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 01 December 2003
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Theodore M. Vial is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He has published in Numen and the Harvard Theological Review. He co-edited Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor ofWendell S. Dietrich, and contributed the chapter on ""Church and State in Schleiermacher's Thought"" to TheCambridge Companion to FriedrichSchleiermacher. Series Editors: Frank Reynolds and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan"

Reviews for Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

Connecting historical theology with ritual theory, Theodore M. Vial's well-written and stimulating book analyzes this liturgy war, which ended, in 1868, with a stalemate: the adoption of two baptismal rites....Vial's book presses an important point of discussion between those scholars who emphasize practice and those who search for a cognitive theory of ritual. <br>- The Journal of Religion <br>