Liturgy, Worship and Society Series
About the Book Series
The Liturgy, Worship and Society series provides a library of innovative scholarship in liturgical studies at a time of vital changes in liturgical life and vigorous debates in academia. The series highlights contemporary work in liturgical studies, attuned both to traditional scholarly inquiry and to recent and emerging questions. In particular, the series is committed to exploring the relationship between liturgical life in Christian churches worldwide and the broader cultural and social contexts in which worship takes place. By offering a thorough grounding in the historical and theological foundations of liturgy as well as determined attention to contemporary developments and concerns, the Liturgy, Worship and Society series is set to make a vital contribution not only to scholarship in liturgical studies but also to the practice of Christian worship in the world today.
The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem: Fourth- and Fifth-Century Evidence from Palestine, Syria and Egypt
1st Edition
By Juliette Day
September 30, 2021
Was Jerusalem, under her bishop Cyril, the source of liturgical innovations in the fourth century or was she simply following trends which also affected the liturgy of neighbouring provinces? In assessing these two established propositions in relation to baptism, Juliette Day undertakes a careful ...
The Rite of Christian Initiation: Adult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology
1st Edition
By Peter McGrail
September 30, 2021
In the wake of recent papal legislation, the various liturgies of the Roman Rite may today be celebrated in either their post-Tridentine or post-Vatican II forms. Whilst much discussion of this new situation focuses on purely liturgical issues, this book breaks new ground by arguing that the ...
Towards Liturgies that Reconcile: Race and Ritual among African-American and European-American Protestants
1st Edition
By Scott Haldeman
September 30, 2021
Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they have done so as slave and master, ...
Evangelicals, Worship and Participation: Taking a Twenty-First Century Reading
1st Edition
By Alan Rathe
June 30, 2021
In discussions of worship, the term ’participation’ covers a lot of ground. It refers not only to concrete acts in gathered liturgy, but also to some of the loftiest claims of Christian theology. In this book, Alan Rathe probes the ways in which North American evangelicals have in recent years ...
First Communion: Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity
1st Edition
By Peter McGrail
June 30, 2021
One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'. This is the ritual by which seven- or eight -year-old children are admitted to the Eucharist for the first time. It attracts the largest congregations of any parish liturgy, and...
Eucharist Shaping and Hebert’s Liturgy and Society: Church, Mission and Personhood
1st Edition
By Andrew Bishop
June 30, 2020
The contemporary Church of England is wrestling with issues around the relationship between its worship and mission and relating both to wider society. Much of this hinges on an understanding of the nature of the Church. Gabriel Hebert's seminal book Liturgy and Society (1935) took as its subtitle,...
@ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds
1st Edition
By Teresa Berger
December 13, 2019
A host of both very old and entirely new liturgical practices have arisen in digital mediation, from the live-streaming of worship services and "pray-as-you-go" apps, to digital prayer chapels, virtual choirs and online pilgrimages. Cyberspace now even hosts communities of faith that exist entirely...
Suffering in Worship: Anglican Liturgy in Relation to Stories of Suffering People
1st Edition
By Armand Léon van Ommen
December 12, 2019
How does the universal experience of suffering relate to the experience of worship? Questioning how Anglican liturgy welcomes people who are suffering, Suffering in Worship uniquely applies a narrative–ritual model for the analysis of both the liturgical text and worship services themselves. In ...
Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History: Lifting a Veil on Liturgy's Past
1st Edition
By Teresa Berger
February 28, 2019
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of "...
The Liturgies of Quakerism
1st Edition
By Pink Dandelion
February 18, 2019
The Liturgies of Quakerism explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence. Tracing the original seventeenth century Quakers' understanding of the 'liturgy of silence', and what for them replaced the outward forms used in other parts of Christianity, this book explains how ...
The Blessing of Waters and Epiphany: The Eastern Liturgical Tradition
1st Edition
By Nicholas E. Denysenko
July 27, 2017
This book examines the historical development of the blessing of waters and its theology in the East, with an emphasis on the Byzantine tradition. Exploring how Eastern Christians have sought these waters as a source of healing, purification, and communion with God, Denysenko unpacks their ...
Richard Baxter's Reformed Liturgy: A Puritan Alternative to the Book of Common Prayer
1st Edition
By Glen J. Segger
November 28, 2016
The English Civil War and its aftermath was a time of human devastation, political uncertainty and religious instability. Amid the turmoil of those times, however, the Church of England also saw intense liturgical inventiveness. The Directory for Public Worship, Jeremy Taylor's Communion Office, ...