26 Ritual, repetition, and meaning

Zhang Huan, "Ash Banquet #4" (detail), Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame (Photo by Fr. Matt Cortese, SJ; used with permission)

Today we will be practicing for the final liturgy and considering the questions, "What is liturgy?" and "What is the relationship between liturgy and culture?"

Read This

Mark Searle, “Ritual,” in The Study of Liturgy, ed. Cheslyn Jones and Geoffrey Wainwright, New rev. ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1992), 51–58.
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 62-77, 137-145.

Journal Exercise

You should be working on your final project.

Music Assignment

Practice your music for the final liturgy!