{"id":49974,"date":"2019-11-18T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=49974"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:10:36","slug":"the-liturgy-of-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/the-liturgy-of-the-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liturgy of the Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christmas decorations went up on\nmy Catholic university campus on 11 November so it must be time to reflect liturgically\non Christmas shopping.&nbsp; For James Smith,\nconsumer shopping involves the \u201cliturgy of the mall.\u201d*&nbsp; Arguing that human beings are driven more by\ndesire than by sheer intellectual conviction, Smith writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Because our hearts are oriented primarily by desire, by what we love, and because these desires are shaped and molded by the habit-forming practices in which we participate . . . Rituals and practices of the mall . . . shape our imaginations and how we orient ourselves to the world . . . . The visions of the good life embedded in these practices become surreptitiously embedded in us through our participation in the ritual and rhythms of these institutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith contends that the mall\noffers a vision of life characterized by a number of features.&nbsp; Here I will treat three of them.&nbsp; First, humans are broken \/ flawed.&nbsp; \u201cBy holding up for us the ideals of which we\nfall short,\u201d such as snappy clothing and stylish hair, ads seek to \u201cinscribe in\nus \u201ca sense that something\u2019s wrong with us, that something\u2019s broken.\u201d&nbsp; Second, shopping with family or friends at a\nmall involves a \u201cstrange configuration of sociality,\u201d in which shoppers\nconstrue their \u201crelationships in terms of <em>competition<\/em>\u2014against one\nanother and against the icons of the ideal that have been painted for us.\u201d&nbsp; Third, shopping offers \u201cthe hope of\nredemption in consumption.\u201d&nbsp; On this\naccount, \u201cthe <em>goal<\/em> of shopping is the acquisition of goods and services\nthat try to address the problem\u201d we have come to recognize in ourselves: \u201cour\npear-shaped figure, our pimply face, our drab and outdated wardrobe.\u201d&nbsp; The satisfaction derived from purchases of\nthis kind is often short-lived and so another shopping trip beckons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I offer comments here on these three\nfeatures of the liturgy of the mall vis-\u00e0-vis Christian liturgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like this liturgy, Christian\nliturgy also characterizes humans as broken and flawed.&nbsp; Humans are prone to sin and they do actually\nsin by failing to love.&nbsp; Like the liturgy\nof the mall, Christian liturgy has a social dimension, but in Christian liturgy\nthis social dimension is a matter of being summoned by God to be made into a\npeople who might acknowledge God and serve God in holiness (<em>Lumen Gentium<\/em>,\n9; see also 1 Peter 2:9-10).&nbsp; Like the\nliturgy of the mall, Christian liturgy offers and celebrates hope of\nredemption.&nbsp; Christian life is one of\nconstant conversion and re-conversion to the Gospel.&nbsp; One\u2019s dignity derives not from one\u2019s accomplishments\nor purchases, however,&nbsp; The root of human\ndignity is found in the divine call to be in communion with God, a call issued\nin sovereign divine freedom and graciousness (<em>Gaudium et Spes<\/em>, 19).&nbsp; Though human response to this call may and\ndoes waver, the call itself is unfailing.&nbsp;\nIt is this call that summons Christians to be a people forgiven and\nforgiving, a reconciliation effected in all the sacraments but especially in\nbaptism, Eucharist, and penance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder, though, if Smith\u2019s\nanalysis is both timely and yet outdated.&nbsp;\nBlack Friday, with its hordes of shoppers descending on malls, has a\nclear rival in Cyber Monday, with its shoppers in their individual homes making\npurchase on-line.&nbsp; Mall-shopping does not\nhappen only on Black Friday but neither does cyber-shopping happen only on\nCyber Monday.&nbsp; The \u201cstrange configuration\nof sociality\u201d has a rival in the (greater?) fragmentation of sociality of\ncyber-shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can never grasp all of the\nways in which our character is formed or influenced by our habitual practices.&nbsp; Smith has offered some suggestions for how\ncharacter is influenced by shopping at the mall.&nbsp; How do we understand the ways in which\nhabitual participation in Christian liturgy forms us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*All citations of Smith are from\nJames K.A. 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