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

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.Vial, Theodore is the author of 'Liturgy Wars Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich' with ISBN 9780415966986 and ISBN 0415966981.