Emerging Critical Resources for Liturgical Studies
Mission Statement
A small seminar of people who read and react to one another's scholarship, focusing on the intersections of liturgical studies with recent discourses such as but not limited to post-modernism, post-structuralism and critical theory.
Convener
Siobhan Garrigan
Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies
Yale Divinity School
New Haven, CT
Office: 203-432-5766
siobhan.garrigan@yale.edu
2009 Academy Meeting Agenda
The 2009 seminar will discuss post-colonial theory and liturgical studies. All those wishing to participate should read Homi Bhaba's The Location of Culture, as this will form the basis of our work together this year. Five papers are offered to stimulate discussion of our theme.
1. Andrea Bieler, "Intercultural Dimensions of Worship: A Conversation with Post-colonial Theory."
2. Sharon Fennema, "One Bread, One Body: A Post-Colonial Examination of Global Eucharistic Ecclesiology and the Representation of Difference."
3. Siobhán Garrigan, "Can There Be Forgiveness after Empire? Sectarianism and Worship in Modern-Day Ireland."
4. Gerald Liu, "Belief and Beats: Are Kampalan MC's Authoring Faith as Agents of Alterity?"
5. Joel Schmidt, "'Present in the Word': Human Imagination in the Sacramentality of Preaching"
2008 Academy Meeting Agenda
Louis-Marie Chauvet: liturgy and theology in postmodern dialogue. A discussion of the implications of Chauvet’s work for liturgical theology and practice. Visitors are especially welcomed!
Papers (tentative titles):
Sharon Fennema, Language, Materiality and Performativity: Protestant Free-Church, Traditions and the Sacramentality of the Word after Chauvet.
Bruce Morrill, Sacraments, Revelation of the Humanity of God: Engaging the Fundamental Theology of L.-M. Chauvet and Time, Absence, and Otherness: Divine-Human Paradoxes Bonding Liturgy and Ethics.
Siobhan Garrigan and Claudio Carvalhaes, Who the Hell is the Other? -- A Research Position Paper.
Thomas Burke, Kenosis and the Sacraments: Exploring the Constructive Work of Louis-Marie Chauvet.
Joseph Mudd, From De-ontotheology to a Metaphysics of Meaning: Louis-Marie Chauvet and Bernard Lonergan on Foundations in Sacramental Theology.
Works in progress:
James Farwell, The Eucharist: Ritual, Ethics and Belief in Western Christianity.
Dirk Lange, Awakened to Life: Testifying to Human Suffering in Theology and Practice.
Number of participants: 6-8
Papers Online
A list of papers developed by members from this seminar will appear here
Previous Seminar Reports
See seminar reports from annual meetings dating back to 2004: