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| Anthropology Today 15, 4 (1999) 4-8 |
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| Learning communion |
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| Laurence Hérault 1, 2 |
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| (1999) |
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| This article reports on the learning of Eucharist by young Catholics. It is based on ethnographic observations of several ceremonies of first communion and rehearsals in France (Vendée) and Italy (Valle Stura). The analysis of the training of Eucharistic gestures and actions shows that the Catholic learning of communion does not consist of a dogmatic teaching but presents itself as an apprenticeship of the sense of the Eucharistic act. In rehearsals, we can observe the way children learn to constitute the ritual nature of bread and their own involvement in the ritual action. |
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| 1 : | Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne et comparative (IDEMEC) |
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CNRS : UMR6591 – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III |
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| 2 : | Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) |
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CNRS : UMS841 – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III |
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| Discipline | : | Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology |
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| rite – ritual apprenticeship – catholic communion – eucharist |
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| Contributeur : Laurence Hérault | |
| Submitted on : Friday, 7 March 2008 14:28:08 | |
| Updated on : Friday, 7 March 2008 15:08:55 | |
