Performance and Apprehension of the Mass in an Urban Catholic School

Written Communication Jul 2015

Performance and Apprehension of the Mass in an Urban Catholic School

Robert Jean LeBlanc University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

This article examines students’ literacy practices during Mass and other Catholic religious services in a multilingual, multiethnic urban Catholic school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It discusses three dimensions of their literacy practice: (a) how parents, teachers, and priests draw on the tradition of Catholic schooling and ritual to structure what constitutes literacy during Mass; (b) how students use body posture and performative orientations to the text of the liturgy to engage in these structured practices; and (c) how students strategically use these performative literacy practices for advantage and social positioning. These results invite complicating what literacy practices are valued in contemporary urban Catholic school and how opportunities to draw on these literacy practices are unequally distributed among students for unequal gain.

Journal: Written Communication
Published: 2015-07-01
DOI: 10.1177/0741088315587904
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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