To everybody's great relief, the Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of the paramilitary violence that had ravaged Northern Ireland. This book shows how Christian worship has been implicated in sectarianism, and how it might become a prime location in which sectarianism can be challenged and transformed.
To everybody's great relief, the Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of the paramilitary violence that had ravaged Northern Ireland. This ...
In Beyond Ritual, Siobhan Garrigan uses Habermas's theory of communicative action to suggest two things: first, a method by which theology can access the ritual symbols by which faith is formed; and secondly a metaphor of intersubjectivity with which theology can propose an interpretative, rather than an instrumental, understanding of sacramentality - and thus of God.A Through fieldwork studies of both 'marginal' and 'mainstream' Christian Eucharists, Garrigan develops the conversation between Habermas's philosophy and Christian theology, showing how ritual interactions form, and challenge,...
In Beyond Ritual, Siobhan Garrigan uses Habermas's theory of communicative action to suggest two things: first, a method by which theology can access ...