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This article examines the relationship between Easy Language, biblical texts, and liturgical practice in Protestant worship. Taking the Words of Institution of the Lord’s Supper in Easy Language at the 2025 German Protestant Kirchentag as a case study, it reflects on the collective recitation of these liturgical words in Easy Language and their performative realization within worship. The analysis of the speech act is related to questions of materiality and spatial theory in order to explore how language, bodily enactment, and liturgical space interact in the constitution of religious meaning. By focusing on the textual and material use of the Bible in Protestant liturgy, the article brings the discourses on Easy Language, biblical usage, liturgy, and performativity into conversation with one another.
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