The Churches and Rites of Passage: Volume 59

ISBN-13: 9781009421744 / Twarda / 2023 / 452 str.

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This volume addresses the historical development of life events to which the churches have responded with specific rites and ceremonies.

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Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction Frances Knight; 1. 'Rites of Passage' and the Writing of Church History: Reflections upon our Craft in the Aftermath of van Gennep Thomas O'Loughlin; 2. The Origins of Royal Anointing (President's Prize) Conor O'Brien; 3. Orthodoxy and Authority: Rites of Passage in the Vita Wilfridi and the Vitae Cuthberti Calum Platts; 4. The Renunciation of Wealth as a Rite of the 'poor' and 'perfect': Bede and his Successors Zachary Guiliano; 5. Making Christians in the Umayyad Levant: Anastasius of Sinai and Christian Rites of Maintenance Benjamin Hansen; 6. The Blessing of the Wedding Bedchamber in North-Western Europe, c.950–c.1200 Elisabeth van Houts; 7. Recording Liturgical and Sacramental Rites of Passage in Pre-Reformation English Parishes R. N. Swanson; 8. Coming of Age in Faith: The Rite of Confirmation after the English Reformation Alexandra Walsham; 9. 'The Child's blood should lye at his Door': Local Divisions over Baptismal Rites during the English Civil War and the Interregnum Fiona McCall; 10. Wedding Sermons in Early Modern England Ralph Houlbrooke; 11. Clerical Old Age and the Forming of Rites of Passage in Early Modern Scotland Chris R. Langley; 12. The Impact of Legislative Reform on Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1836–52, with particular reference to London W. M. Jacob; 13. The 1836 Marriage Act and the Early Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Campaign to change English Marriage Law David L. Wykes; 14. Rites and Wrongs: Anglican Ceremonies after Legal Weddings, 1837–57 Rebecca Probert; 15. SPCK Tracts and Rites of Passage in the Long Nineteenth Century (Presidential Address) Frances Knight; 16. 'Does God mind?': Reshaping Chinese Christian Rites of Passage, c.1877–1940 (Kennedy Prize) Tim Yung; 17. 'First' or 'Solemn Communion' Images in France, 1885–2021 Françoise Deconinck-Brossard; 18. The Sick Call and the Drama of Extreme Unction in Irish Folklore Salvador Ryan; 19. From Necrology to Eulogy? A Preacher memorializes his Father-in-Law Clyde Binfield; 20. 'To our earthly view Dietrich is dead': George Bell's Eulogy for Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dan D. Cruickshank; 21. E. L. Mascall and the Anglican Opposition to the Ordination of Women as Priests, 1954–78 Peter Webster; 22. Negotiating Dissonance between the Religious, the Civil and the Legal in Anglican Same-Sex Weddings Rémy Bethmont.