Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual Practice -- 1 Introduction -- Part II Catholic Ritual: Practice in History -- Introduction -- 2 The Future of the Past: What Can the History Say about Symbol and Ritual? -- Commentary: Ritual Efficacy: Cautionary Questions, Historical and Social Anthropological -- 3 Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages -- Commentary: No Time for Dying -- 4 Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages -- Commentary: Body-Critical Embodiment -- 5 Race, Religion, and the Emerging Modern World: Indians, Incas, and Conspiracy Stories in Colonial Peru -- Part III Contemporary Ritual Practices of Healing -- Introduction -- 6 The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis -- 7 Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion -- 8 Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches -- Commentary: Embodiment, Integration, and Authenticity: Keys to Reshaping the Catholic Sacramental Imagination -- Part IV Catholic Ritual as Political Practice -- Introduction -- 9 The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village -- 10 The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia -- 11 Making Christ Credible: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism and the Liberating Nearness of God -- Commentary: The Paradoxical Character of Symbols, Popular Religion, and Church: Questions for U.S. Latino/a Theology -- Part V Contemporary Mass Media as a Domain for Catholic Ritual Practice -- Introduction -- 12 The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History.

13 The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond -- Commentary: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and Media Sociology -- 14 Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts -- Part VI Conclusion: Between Theory and Practice -- Introduction -- 15 Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of "Historical Sensation" -- 16 The Liturgy of Theory -- Commentary: The Medicine of Philosophy -- Epilogue: Reflections at Vespers -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Commentators -- Notes -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.