Ritual Techniques in Affliction Rites and the Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical Liturgy of Lund, 2016

Protest and reconciliation rituals play a contested but important role in social change. This essay analyzes how of effectively negotiate between competing factions norms by using ritual techniques as embodied symbols. Against the horizon theory from Victor Edith Turner Cas Wepener, participant observation Lutheran Catholic Joint Commemoration Reformation “Common Prayer” Lund, Sweden on October 31, 2016 reveals five stages: crisis/diagnosis, redress, forgiveness acceptance, binding, reparative mission. Each is marked its own characteristic techniques, whereas some symbolic elements manifest different stages throughout liturgy. liturgy demonstrates one can speak to various process accommodating new norm (Christian unity) within set identities (“Lutheran” “Catholic”). It binding that relationship ritual-symbolic realm real work most directly visualized.