12 A Brief History of the Black Mass

In: Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals
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Ruben van Luijk
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Abstract

The black Mass is an understudied form of liturgy. This article sketches its history in five tableaus, including medieval rumours, seventeenth-century magical operations, eighteenth-and nineteenth century literary fiction, and culminating in the establishment of a ‘canonical’ black Mass liturgy in the modern Church of Satan. In addition, it discusses academic efforts to define its substance and tries to discover what place we can give the black Mass in the history of religion by applying the theories of Roy A. Rappaport.


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Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals

Encounters in Liturgical Studies

Series:  Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology, Volume: 5
Cover Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals
E-Book ISBN:
9789004347083
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2017
Preliminary Material
Continuity and Renewal in Liturgical Studies: An Introduction
1 Conclusions Shaping Evidence: An Examination of the Scholarship Surrounding the Supposed Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus
2 Communion of Saints: The Function of Liturgical Scenes in Hagiographic Texts
3 Die Eucharistiefeier für die Toten. Theologische Motive und Neuakzentuierungen in der altrömischen und frühmittelalterlichen Euchologie
4 About Naked Women and Adam’s Body: The Syriac-Christian Cave of Treasures as a Source of Islamic Storytelling
5 Provinciae et civitates ecclesiis plenae. Transformation of the civitates Indorum in the Apocryphal Acts and the Liturgical Commemoration of the Apostle Thomas
6 Non sufficit hec orare, sed et necesse est se purgare … Gabriel Biel’s Representation of the Intellect, the Will and Memory in his Canonis Missae Expositio 
7 Cosmos and Liturgy from Maximus the Confessor to Hans Urs von Balthasar (with an excursion on H.J. Schulz)
8 The Bishop and his Deacons. Ignatius of Antioch’s View on Ministry: Two-fold or Three-fold?
9 Breaking the Fast: The Central Moment of the Paschal Celebration in Historical Context and Diachronic Perspective
10 Body and Feast: The Liturgical Calendar of the Old Diocese of Utrecht
11 Hallucination Depicted: God’s Name on Shiviti Plates
12 A Brief History of the Black Mass
13 The Roman Catholic Liturgy in the Postconciliar Time of Transition
14 Shavuot, Covenant Renewal, and Pentecost
15 Will You Join Us for a Meal? Jewish and Christian Interaction in Early Council Texts
16 Encounters in the Playground: Jewish and Christian Children at Play in Roman-Byzantine Palestine
17 Heresy as Impurity
18 Disciplina Arcani: Modern Avatars of Christian Ritual Secrecy
19 Liturgical Language and Vernacular Tongues in Eastern Christianity
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