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  1. For whom the bell tolls: state-society relations and the Sichuan earthquake mourning in China. [REVIEW]Bin Xu - 2013 - Theory and Society 42 (5):509-542.
    In the wake of the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008, the Chinese state, for the first time in the history of the People’s Republic, held a nationwide mourning rite for ordinary disaster victims. Why did this “mourning for the ordinary” emerge in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake but not previous massive disasters? Moreover, the Chinese state tried to demonstrate through the mourning that the state respected ordinary people’s lives and dignity. But this moral-political message contradicted the state’s normal repressive (...)
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  • The true citizens of the city of God: the cult of saints, the Catholic social order, and the urban Reformation in Germany.Steven Pfaff - 2013 - Theory and Society 42 (2):189-218.
    Historical scholarship suggests that a robust cult of the saints may have helped some European regions to resist inroads by Protestantism. Based on a neo-Durkheimian theory of rituals and social order, I propose that locally based cults of the saints that included public veneration lowered the odds that Protestantism would displace Catholicism in sixteenth-century German cities. To evaluate this proposition, I first turn to historical and theoretical reflection on the role of the cult of the saints in late medieval history. (...)
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