Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Engagement and marriage ceremonies; 2 To beat the Devil; 3 Churching, a women's rite; 4 Repentance, confession, and the Lord's Table; 5 Banning the dead and ordering the living; 6 Ritual change; Notes; Index
Summary
Susan Karant-Nunn applies the insights of anthrop- ologists to ritual change in the German Reformat- ion, finding that Church and state cooperated in using ritual as an instrument for imposing social discipline
