num_pages: 198
description: How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formationboth secular and Christianaffects our fundamental orientation to the world. Worship works by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation.Professors and students will welcome this work as will pastors worship leaders and Christian educators. The book includes analyses of popular films novels and other cultural phenomena such as The King's Speech Rise of the Planet of the Apes David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Facebook.Includes xx pages of Introductory material 191 pages of text and 5 pages of indices.
language: English
title: Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
publisher: Baker Academic