Practicing Catholic

PART I: PERFOMANCE, LITURGY, AND RITUAL PRACTICE Introduction; S.Rodgers, J.E.Ziegler & B.T.Morrill PART II: CATHOLIC RITUAL: PRACTICE IN HISTORY The Future of the Past: What Can History Teach Us about Symbol and Ritual?; G.Macy Commentary on Macy: Ritual Efficacy: Cautionary Questions, Historical and Social Anthropological; A.Cashman Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages; F.S.Paxton Commentary on Paxton: No Time for Dying; E.H.Thompson, Jr. Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages; J.Pierce Commentary on Pierce: Body Critical Embodiment; J.Knust Modern Inquisitions; I.Silverblatt Commentary on Silverblatt: On Colonial Catholicisms; S.Rodgers PART III: CONTEMPORARY RITUAL PRACTICES OF HEALING The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis; T.Schroeder-Sheker Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion; B.T.Morrill Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches; B.T.Morrill Commentary on Schroder-Sheker and Morrill: Embodiment, Integration, and Authenticity; Reshaping the Catholic Sacramental Imagination; J.M.Kubicki PART IV: CATHOLIC RITUAL AS POLITICAL PRACTICE The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village; M.Schmalz The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia; D.M.Goldstein Because It Is a Symbol, It Is Real: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism as Liberating; R.S.Goizueta Commentary on Goizueta: The Paradoxical Character of Symbols, Popular Religion, and Church: Questions for U.S. Latino/a Theology; J.B.Nickoloff PART V: CONTEMPORARY MASS MEDIA AS A DOMAIN FOR CATHOLIC RITUAL PRACTICE The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History; V.Rafael The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond; S.Rodgers Commentary on Rafael and Rodgers: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Media; J.Schmalzbauer Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts; M.N.Schmalz PART VI: CONCLUSION: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of "Historical Sensation"; J.E.Ziegler The Liturgy of Theory; C.A.Dustin Commentary on Dustin: The Medicine of Philosophy; W.E.Stempsey Epilogue: Reflections on Vespers, Holy Cross Campus, Brooks Concert Hall Sunday, October 20, 2002; K.M.McElaney