Clifford Geertz & Louis-Marie Chauvet

Ritual communication & the structure of Christian identity

Ritual communication, as depicted on page 7 of Geertz 1973. The book-example was added by me. First appeared as figure 2 on page 12 of Michels 1996.	The structure of Christian identity, after a diagram on page 172 of Chauvet 1995. First appeared as figure 16 on page 63 of Michels 1996.

Bibliography

• Louis-Marie Chauvet, Symbol and sacrament: a sacramental reinterpretation of Christian existence, Collegeville MN 1995, ISBN 0-8146-6124-6, xvii + 569pp.
• Clifford Geertz, Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture, in: idem, The interpretation of cultures — selected essays, New York 1973, ISBN 0-465-09719-7 (=Harper Torchbooks 5043), 3–30.
• Tijs Michels, Liturgical innovation in the practice of a marriage rite and the sacramental theology of Chauvet, master's thesis, Tilburg University 1996, 89pp.

The initial version of both diagrams was made with the aid of a slightly tweaked DrawPerfect macro. The Chauvet diagram was then converted to PostScript using Mayura Draw, whereas the Geertz diagram was first translated to a NCAR CGM, available here, and then to PostScript using ctrans. After some final hand-editing in a text editor, these PostScript versions were turned into the above PDF and PNG files with Ghostscript.

All plots (PDF, PNG, CGM), copyrighted © Tijs Michels 1996–2012, can be freely used, provided the above copyright is mentioned.