Catholic rituals as an expression of social difference

In his lecture, Roland Kuonen will show the role played by Catholic rituals as a way of staging social difference in Leuk-Stadt. The upper classes were able to showcase their difference in status compared to the rural population in the rites of passage (baptism, first communion, marriage, death). It was only after the Second World War that the rituals were "democratized".


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