'Sacramentality' can serve as a category that helps to understand the performative power of religious and legal rituals. Through the analysis of 'sacraments', we can observe how law uses sacramentality to change reality through performative action, and how religion uses law to organise religious rituals, including sacraments. The study of sacramental action thus shows how law and religion intertwine to produce legal, spiritual, and other social effects. In this volume, Judith Hahn explores this interplay by interpreting the Catholic sacraments as examples of sacro-legal symbols that draw on the sacramental functioning of the law to provide both spiritual and legal goods to church members. By focusing on sacro-legal symbols from the perspective of sacramental theology, legal studies, ritual theory, symbol theory, and speech act theory, Hahn's study reveals how law and religion work hand in hand to shape our social reality.
By:
Judith Hahn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 549g ISBN:9781009330169 ISBN 10: 1009330160 Pages: 350 Publication Date:23 November 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Judith Hahn is Professor of Canon Law in the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Bonn. A theologian and canonist, she is the author of Church Law in Modernity and Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law.