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The Reformation of Ritual Susan Karant-Nunn

The Reformation of Ritual By Susan Karant-Nunn

The Reformation of Ritual by Susan Karant-Nunn

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Summary

Susan Karant-Nunn applies the insights of anthrop- ologists to ritual change in the German Reformat- ion, finding that Church and state cooperated in using ritual as an instrument for imposing social discipline.

The Reformation of Ritual Summary

The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany by Susan Karant-Nunn

The first book on this key subject

Focuses on ritual and its social context

An American author with previous publications

Fascinating themes - imprisonment for sex before marriage etc.

The Reformation of Ritual Reviews

'The title of this excellent book suggests the scope of it's author's ambitition... That Susan Karant-Nunn has succeeded so well is a tribute to her scholarship and erudition.' - German History

About Susan Karant-Nunn

Susan Karant-Nunn

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Engagement and marriage ceremonies: taming the beast within 2. To beat the Devil: baptism and the conquest of sin 3. Churching, a woman's rite 4. Repentance, confession, and the Lord's Table: separating the divine from the human 5. Banning the dead and ordering the living: the selective retention of catholic practice 6. Ritual change: conclusions

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NLS9780415443937
9780415443937
0415443938
The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany by Susan Karant-Nunn
Susan Karant-Nunn
Christianity and Society in the Modern World
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2007-04-16
304
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