Worship in the Network Culture
Liturgical Ritual Studies. Fields and Methods, Concepts and Metaphors
by J. Cilliers, C. Wepener and M. Barnard
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 conceptualization and elaborates on the sensitizing concept of liminality. In part three various aspects of the field are elaborated on in six double perspectives.
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.
- By (author) M Barnard
- By (author) J Cilliers
- By (author) C Wepener
"...Barnard, Cilliers and Wepener explore key concepts in liturgical ritual studies, and engage with important debates. Ten years of research has yielded rich fruit... This book should be a staple in the diet of anyone who studies liturgical ritual." A.L. van Ommen, Journal of Empirical Theology, 28 (2015)
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Other Titles in this Series
Rituals in Abundance
Critical Reflections on the Place, Form and Identity of Christian Ritual in our Culture
Volume 17
Doing Ritual Criticism in a Network Society
Online and Offline Explorations into Pilgrimage and Sacred Place
Volume 29
Friedlicher Kreuzzug und fromme Pilger
Liturgiehistorische Studien zur Heilig-Land-Wallfahrt im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Pilgerberichte des späten 19. Jahrhunderts
Volume 27
The Embodied Space of Worship
Liturgical Signs and Liturgical Bodies in Contemporary Finnish Orthodox Lay Worship
Volume 33
Patterns and Persons
A Historiography of Liturgical Studies in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century
Volume 25
The Sound of Worship
Liturgical Performance by Surinamese Lutherans and Ghanaian Methodists in Amsterdam
Volume 26
Bonding in Worship
A Ritual Lens on Social Capital in African Independent Churches in South Africa
Volume 30
From Fast to Feast
A Ritual-Liturgical Exploration of Reconciliation in South African Cultural Contexts
Volume 19
Die modernen ritual studies als Herausforderung fur die Liturgiewissenschaft. Modern Ritual Studies as a Challenge for Liturgical Studies
Volume 20
La liturgie des Heures par tous les baptisés
L'expérience quotidienne du mystère pascal
Volume 23
The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite
A Comparative Analysis of its Origins, Evolution, and Structural Components
Volume 21
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