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Sociology and liturgy : re-presentations of the holy

Title
Sociology and liturgy : re-presentations of the holy / Kieran Flanagan.
Author
Flanagan, Kieran, 1944-
Publication
London : Macmillan, 1991.

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Description
xi, 411 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Public worship > Social aspects
  • Liturgics > Sociological aspects
  • Liturgie
  • Sociologie
  • Anglicaanse Kerk
  • Rooms-Katholieke Kerk
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index.
Contents
Sociology and theology: a career in misunderstanding -- Liturgical theology: some sociological implications -- Sociological understandings of liturgy: some aspects -- Angels and surplices: appearing as holy becoming -- Simulation and dissimulation: self-revealing paradoxes -- Holy and unholy rites: lies and mistakes in liturgy -- Sacred and profane abasements: the management of esteem -- Altar servers and waiters: serving in worlds apart -- Liturgy as ritual: playing on social limits -- Action, symbol, text: hermeneutics and sociology -- Apophatic liturgy: re-presenting the absent in rite.
ISBN
  • 033355079X
  • 9780333550793
  • 0312068743
  • 9780312068745
OCLC
  • ocm22764727
  • 22764727
  • SCSB-1954611
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library