Ross Melanie C. (Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Yale Divinity School)
Ross Melanie C. (Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Yale Divinity School) - Evangelical Worship An American Mosaic - Hardcover
Ross Melanie C. (Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Yale Divinity School) - Evangelical Worship An American Mosaic - Hardcover
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Description: Say the words evangelical worship to anyone in the United States - - even if they are not particularly religious - - and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white middle - class worshippers with eyes closed faces tilted upward and hands raised to the sky. Yet despite the centrality of this image many scholars have underestimated evangelical worship as little more than a manipulative effort to arouse devotional exhilaration. It is frequently dismissed as a reiteration of nineteenth - century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment - - three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk. But by failing to engage this worship seriously we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship offers a new way forward in the study of American evangelical Christianity. Weaving together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies and drawing on extensive fieldwork in seven congregations Melanie C. Ross brings contemporary evangelical worship to life. She argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral extra tacked on to a fully - formed spiritual political and cultural movement but rather the crucible through which congregations forge argue over and enact their unique contributions to the American mosaic known as evangelicalism.
Title: Evangelical Worship An American Mosaic
Author(s): Ross Melanie C. (Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Yale Divinity School)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197530757
Pages: 322 Pages, 20 Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/8/2021
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
Description: Say the words evangelical worship to anyone in the United States - - even if they are not particularly religious - - and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white middle - class worshippers with eyes closed faces tilted upward and hands raised to the sky. Yet despite the centrality of this image many scholars have underestimated evangelical worship as little more than a manipulative effort to arouse devotional exhilaration. It is frequently dismissed as a reiteration of nineteenth - century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment - - three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk. But by failing to engage this worship seriously we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship offers a new way forward in the study of American evangelical Christianity. Weaving together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies and drawing on extensive fieldwork in seven congregations Melanie C. Ross brings contemporary evangelical worship to life. She argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral extra tacked on to a fully - formed spiritual political and cultural movement but rather the crucible through which congregations forge argue over and enact their unique contributions to the American mosaic known as evangelicalism.
Title: Evangelical Worship An American Mosaic
Author(s): Ross Melanie C. (Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Associate Professor Of Liturgical Studies Yale Divinity School)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197530757
Pages: 322 Pages, 20 Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/8/2021
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
