Martin D. Stringer

Sociological History of Christian Worship (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts. Beginning with the Biblical material the author provides a broad survey of changes over 2000 years of the Christian church, together with a series of case studies that highlight particular elements of the worship, or specific theoretical applications. Stringer does not simply examine the mainstream traditions of Christian worship in Europe and Byzantium, but also gives space to lesser-known traditions in Armenia, India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Offering a contribution to the ongoing debate that breaks away from a purely textual or theological study of Christian worship, this book provides a greater understanding of the place of worship in its social and cultural context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511123948
• Artikelnr.: 38192117

Autorenporträt

Martin D. Stringer is lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology of Religion and Head of the Department of Theology at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: discourse, devotion and embodiment; 1. Early Christian worship, texts and contexts to AD 300; 2. Worship and the Christianisation of public spaces 300-600; 3. Hegemonic discourses in the worship of Empires 600-900; 4. The dominant discourse of cosmological Christianity 900-1200; 5. Accessing the demotic discourses of devotion 1200-1500; 6. Worship and the rise of humanistic discourses 1500-1800; 7. The globalisation of Christian worship 1800-2000.

Rezensionen

'This is a well and lucidly written book. A great deal of material have been included and crafted into a convincingly written narrative. The scholarship is profound and the wealth of material here is always germane to his argument. I found it required considerable concentration at times, but this is right and only to be expected in a work of this depth. Dr Stringer has written a book of seminal importance which deserves to guide and inform the study of Christian worship for many years to come. Buy. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.' Dr Richard Buxton, Society for Liturgical Study