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Distribution AgreementDistribution Agreement • September 22nd, 2012
This dissertation attends to the dynamics of embodiment in Christian worship on three levels: actual worship, the study of worship, and the relationship between worship and broader society. First, it considers what bodies do in Christian worship, what they are expected to do in Christian worship, and what presuppositions are at work in such expectations concerning bodily conduct. In order, however, to ade‐ quately account for the conduct of bodies in worship (and expectations concerning it), it is necessary to counter an interpretive bias, pervasive in the study of Christian worship, towards relations among symbols within systems of meaning. Bringing more balance to the interpretation of Christian worship requires establishing a framework that foregrounds relations among bodies within systems of conduct. The dissertation, therefore, illustrates the use of a new analytical tool — the “regimen” of a service — in re‐examining several ethnographic accounts of actual worship. The assumption
