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Sociology and Liturgy

Re-presentations of the Holy

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Kieran Flanagan

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 1-17

  3. Sociology and Theology: A Career in Misunderstanding

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 18-31

  4. Liturgical Theology: Some Sociological Implications

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 32-56

  5. Sociological Understandings of Liturgy: Some Aspects

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 57-83

  6. Angels and Surplices: Appearing As Holy Becoming

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 84-114

  7. Simulation and Dissimulation: Self-revealing Paradoxes

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 115-149

  8. Holy and Unholy Rites: Lies and Mistakes in Liturgy

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 150-185

  9. Sacred and Profane Abasements: The Management of Esteem

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 186-206

  10. Altar Servers and Waiters: Serving in Worlds Apart

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 207-233

  11. Liturgy as Ritual: Playing on Social Limits

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 234-257

  12. Action, Symbol, Text: Hermeneutics and Sociology

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 258-287

  13. Apophatic Liturgy: Re-presenting the Absent in Rite

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 288-320

  14. Conclusion

    • Kieran Flanagan
    Pages 321-340

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 341-411
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About this book

This is a study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. Interest centres on the dilemmas of the liturgical actors in handling a transaction riddled with ambiguities and potential misunderstandings. The study is an innovative effort to link sociology to theology in a way that serves to focus on an issue of social praxis.

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  • University of Bristol, UK

    Kieran Flanagan

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