Worship in the network culture
Subtitle: liturgical ritual studies : fields and methods, concepts and metaphors
By: Marcel Barnard, Johan Cilliers, Cas Wepener
Contributors: Cilliers, Johan; Wepener, Cas, 1972-
Series: Liturgia condenda -- 28; Liturgia condenda -- 28.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9789042930698
Subjects: Liturgics
Description: Worship signifies a wide field of liturgical ritual practices that extend from the Sunday morning service in a mainline church through a worship service in an African Independent Church to Christian ritual on the internet and cultural ritual-symbolic practices. Solid and solidified concepts are no longer sufficient for the study of this liquid field. This book approaches liturgical ritual from a different perspective. The first part of this book maps and explores the field of liturgical ritual studies. The second part of the book takes a first step in the process of conceptualisation and elaborates on the sensitising concept of liminality. In part three various aspects of the field are elaborated on in six double perspectives: bricolage/particularity, language/silence, image/sound, embodiment/performance, play/function, time/space. Part four reviews the road that the book has covered to this point from the two theological perspectives that characterise Protestant worship: Sacrament/Word and Prayer/Worship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Worship in the network culture; title: I. Fields and methods : mapping and exploring the field; title: Worship and liturgical ritual : sketches; title: Worship as liturgical ritual; title: Investigating liturgical ritual; title: II. Liminality : a sensitising concept and metaphor; title: Connected/rooted : anthropological perspectives on liminality; title: Descended/ascended : theological perspectives on liminality; title: III. Concepts and metaphors; title: Bricolage/particularity; title: Language/silence; title: Image/sound; title: Embodiment/performance; title: Play/function; title: Time/space; title: IV. Theological review; title: Sacrament/word; title: Worship/prayer; title: Epilogue: Liminality reviewed.