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Northup offers a captivating, in-depth examination of many of the issues regarding women's ritualizing -- such as the common patterns and images used, the construction of sacred space and time, the value of narrative, and the patterns of politics and social action. A fascinating, definitive study of post-modernism and universality in the context of women's worship.
Expanding the X-axis: women, religious ritual, and culture / Lesley A. Northup -- Women revisioning religious rituals / Diann Neu -- Womanist ritual / Amitiyah Elayne Hyman -- Dismantling patriarchy--a redemptive vision: ritual and feminist critical theology in basic ecclesial communities / Anne R. Andersson.
The richness of recent research on women's worship gives witness to the scholarly interest in its contemporary practice, reflection, and construction. On the other hand, feminist scholarship has had little impact on liturgical historiography. In Women's Ways of Worship Teresa Berger reconstructs liturgical history from the perspectives of women. She shows that the invisibility of women in the traditional liturgical narrative draws into question the credibility of that narrative, especially at a time when research into women's history has unearthed much material relevant to women's liturgical lives. Berger focuses on thirteen key interpretative principles that guide the reconstruction of wome...
Ten experts in worship and liturgical reform imagine the possibilities for new liturgy. Includes essays by the editors and J. Neil Alexander, Marion J. Hatchett, Carol Doran, Linda Moeller, Ormonde Plater, Leigh Axton Williams, Richard G. Leggett, and Philip H. Pfatteicher.
This study examines the 1892 revision of the Book of Common Prayer historically, focusing on its reflection of the issues confronting the Church in the late-19th century and on the process by which it was adopted. It attempts to uncover the place of the revision in the evolving self-understanding of the Episcopal Church. The 1892 revision represented a stunning departure from previous attitudes about the immutability of the prayer book, helped redefine the Church's ethos at the start of a new century, and was the sine qua non for future revision.
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The occasion of Dr. Hatchett's thirtieth anniversary as professor of liturgics and church music at the School of Theology of the University of the South is being celebrated with this stimulating collection of essays by an international cadre of authors.
Anglican, Benedictine monk, Dom Gregory Dix (1901-52) was at the heart of studies of liturgy and worship in the Church of England. He was a prolific author whose magnum opus, The Shape of the Liturgy (1945), has remained on the publishers' shelves to this day. A Very Anglican Monk studies many aspects of Dix's life and works.
Argues that the postmodern Western church is in ruins and that to be in the church is to embrace a "broken way of life"