BRUCE T. MORRILL is Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Boston College, USA.JOANNA E. ZIEGLER is Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross, USA.SUSAN RODGERS is Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross, USA.

"This work is not just for artists and philosophers...it proposes a way of 'living well,' and promises to become a spiritual classic for a wide audience." - Choice

• PART I: PERFOMANCE, LITURGY, AND RITUAL PRACTICE Introduction; S.Rodgers, J.E.Ziegler & B.T.Morrill PART II: CATHOLIC RITUAL: PRACTICE IN HISTORY The Future of the Past: What Can History Teach Us about Symbol and Ritual?; G.Macy Commentary on Macy: Ritual Efficacy: Cautionary Questions, Historical and Social Anthropological; A.Cashman Performing Death and Dying at Cluny in the High Middle Ages; F.S.Paxton Commentary on Paxton: No Time for Dying; E.H.Thompson, Jr. Marginal Bodies: Liturgical Structures of Pain and Deliverance in the Middle Ages; J.Pierce Commentary on Pierce: Body Critical Embodiment; J.Knust Modern Inquisitions; I.Silverblatt Commentary on Silverblatt: On Colonial Catholicisms; S.Rodgers PART III: CONTEMPORARY RITUAL PRACTICES OF HEALING The Vox Feminae: Choosing and Being as Christian Form and Praxis; T.Schroeder-Sheker Practicing the Pastoral Care of the Sick: The Sacramental Body in Liturgical Motion; B.T.Morrill Christ the Healer: An Investigation of Contemporary Liturgical, Pastoral, and Biblical Approaches; B.T.Morrill Commentary on Schroder-Sheker and Morrill: Embodiment, Integration, and Authenticity; Reshaping the Catholic Sacramental Imagination; J.M.Kubicki PART IV: CATHOLIC RITUAL AS POLITICAL PRACTICE The Death of Comrade Moti: Practicing Catholic Untouchable Rage in a North Indian Village; M.Schmalz The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia; D.M.Goldstein Because It Is a Symbol, It Is Real: U.S. Latino/a Popular Catholicism as Liberating; R.S.Goizueta Commentary on Goizueta: The Paradoxical Character of Symbols, Popular Religion, and Church: Questions for U.S. Latino/a Theology; J.B.Nickoloff PART V: CONTEMPORARY MASS MEDIA AS A DOMAIN FOR CATHOLIC RITUAL PRACTICE The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine History; V.Rafael The Sacramental Body of Audrey Santo: A Holy Mystic Girl in Ritual and Media Spaces in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Beyond; S.Rodgers Commentary on Rafael and Rodgers: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Media; J.Schmalzbauer Performing the Miraculous in Central Massachusetts; M.N.Schmalz PART VI: CONCLUSION: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE Scholarship and/as Performance: The Case of Johan Huizinga and His Concept of "Historical Sensation"; J.E.Ziegler The Liturgy of Theory; C.A.Dustin Commentary on Dustin: The Medicine of Philosophy; W.E.Stempsey Epilogue: Reflections on Vespers, Holy Cross Campus, Brooks Concert Hall Sunday, October 20, 2002; K.M.McElaney