The Migration of Ideas and the Professionalization of the Liturgical Movement

This chapter discusses the migration of ideas from a particular person in the 1850s to the United States in the 1920s and 30s, and the professionalization of the study of liturgy after World War II. It explores the establishment of liturgical institutes in Germany and Rome, the separation of liturgical study from practice, and the privileging of written sources over oral tradition. Additionally, it discusses the institutionalization of the liturgical movement in the 1950s and the emergence of an expert class within the movement.