Ritual Practices In Congregational Identity Formation

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Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation

Author : Timothy D. Son
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183117
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation written by Timothy D. Son and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various kinds of Christian rituals with respect to how rituals influence the formational processes of a congregation’s identity. Based on Victor Turner’s ritual theory, this book also investigates the pedagogical and transformative efficacies of ritual practices within the dynamics of congregational education.

Encyclopedia of Christian Education

Author : George Thomas Kurian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810884933
Total Pages : 1667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christian Education written by George Thomas Kurian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 1667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.

Church Music Through the Lens of Performance

Author : Marcell Silva Steuernagel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000344789
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Church Music Through the Lens of Performance by : Marcell Silva Steuernagel

Download or read book Church Music Through the Lens of Performance written by Marcell Silva Steuernagel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory, both as a discipline and as a theoretical framework. Scholars who address religious music making in general, and Christian church music in particular, use "performance" in a variety of ways, creating confusion around the term. A systematized performance vocabulary for the study of church music can support interdisciplinary investigations of Christian congregational music making in today’s complex, interconnected world. From the perspective of performance theory, all those involved in church musicking are performing, be it from platform or pew. The book employs a hybrid methodology that combines ethnographic research and theory from ritual studies, ethnomusicology, theology, and church music scholarship to establish performance studies as a possible "next step" in church music studies. It demonstrates the feasibility of studying church music as performance by analyzing ethnographic case studies using a developmental framework based on the concepts of ritual, embodiment, and play/change. This book offers a fresh perspective on Christian congregational music making. It will, therefore, be a key reference work for scholars working in Congregational Music Studies, Ethnomusicology, Ritual Studies and Performance Studies, as well as practitioners interested in examining their own church music practices.

Transforming Worship

Author : Rory Noland
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830841733
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Worship written by Rory Noland and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith. There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples. Rory Noland is a worship leader who has led in contexts ranging from megachurches to small retreat settings such as the Transforming Center with Ruth Haley Barton. Combining discipleship and worship—what Noland calls transforming worship—he offers a vision for worship as spiritual formation. We need to reclaim our worship services as a formative space, and through that we will become the light of Christ in a dark world.

Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950

Author : Deirdre Raftery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317410947
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950 written by Deirdre Raftery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the work of eleven leading international scholars to map the contribution of teaching Sisters, who provided schooling to hundreds of thousands of children, globally, from 1800 to 1950. The volume represents research that draws on several theoretical approaches and methodologies. It engages with feminist discourses, social history, oral history, visual culture, post-colonial studies and the concept of transnationalism, to provide new insights into the work of Sisters in education. Making a unique contribution to the field, chapters offer an interrogation of historical sources as well as fresh interpretations of findings, challenging assumptions. Compelling narratives from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Africa, Australia, South East Asia, France, the UK, Italy and Ireland contribute to what is a most important exploration of the contribution of the women religious by mapping and contextualizing their work. Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800–1950: Convents, classrooms and colleges will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of social history, women’s history, the history of education, Catholic education, gender studies and international education.

Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality

Author : Carolyn McNamara Barry
Publisher : Emerging Adulthood
ISBN 13 : 0199959188
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality written by Carolyn McNamara Barry and published by Emerging Adulthood. This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality seeks to understand how the developmental process of meaning-making encompasses American emerging adults' religiousness and spirituality. This volume does not focus on disentangling religion and spirituality conceptually, but rather emphasizes their centrality in the psychology of human development. It highlights the range of experiences and perspectives of emerging adults in the U.S. grounded in social context, social position, and religious or spiritual identification. Chapters are written by an interdisciplinary group of authors and explore topics such as the benefits and detriments of religiousness and spirituality to emerging adults; contexts and socializing agents such as parents and peers, the media, religious communities, and universities; and variations of religiousness and spirituality concerning gender, sexuality, culture, and social position.

Church as Network

Author : Jeffrey H. Mahan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538135817
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Church as Network written by Jeffrey H. Mahan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the emergence of print and literacy created conditions for vast religious change at the time of the Reformation, the emergence of a digital culture shaped by computers and the internet has led to radically different assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain transformative relationships, and how people follow and give authority to leaders. The central issues concerning this digital culture are not technological but theological and anthropological. Old models of stable religious identity and community seem irrelevant in a culture in which everyone is in motion. The book identifies three profound changes produced by digital culture which challenge existing understandings of church: 1) a shift to seeing Christian identity as an ongoing constructive project, 2) the development of fluid networked forms of community, and 3) the emergence of less hierarchical more conversational forms of leadership.

The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Author : Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483384845
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence written by Eugene C. Roehlkepartain and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence breaks new ground by articulating the state of knowledge in the area of childhood and adolescent spiritual development. Featuring a rich array of theory and research from an international assortment of leading social scientists in multiple disciplines, this book represents work from diverse traditions and approaches – making it an invaluable resource for scholars across a variety of disciplines and organizations.

Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310002
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, leading to encompassing models of religious perfection that had an effect far into the sixteenth century.

Creating a Missional Culture

Author : JR Woodward
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830866795
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Missional Culture written by JR Woodward and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, Moses had had enough. Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, "What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me" (Exodus 11:11, 15). If that sounds hauntingly familiar to you, you may be the senior pastor of a contemporary church. The burden of Christian leadership is becoming increasingly unbearable--demanding skills not native to the art of pastoring; demanding time that makes sabbath rest and even normal sleep patterns seem extravagant; demanding inhuman levels of efficiency, proficiency and even saintliness. No wonder pastors seem and even feel less human these days. No wonder they burn out or break down at an alarming rate; no wonder the church is missing the mark on its mission. In Creating a Missional Culture, JR Woodward offers a bold and surprisingly refreshing model for churches--not small adjustments around the periphery of a church's infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look, from its leadership structure to its mobilization of the laity. The end result looks surprisingly like the church that Jesus created and the apostles cultivated: a church not chasing the wind but rather going into the world and making disciples of Jesus.

Female Faith Practices

Author : Nicola Slee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000928330
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Female Faith Practices written by Nicola Slee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practices. The chapters cover Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist contexts as well as newer spiritual movements. The contributors examine prayer and ritual practices and familial, educational and ritual spaces and relationships in a variety of cultural settings. The volume reflects on the ways in which women subvert traditional or patriarchal religious practices and spaces, both problematising and expanding existing notions of ‘religious practice’. It also touches on research itself as a form of spiritual and academic practice, considering ways in which women challenge androcentric modes of research as well as ways in which the subject of research – in this case, female faith – may challenge the researcher’s convictions and practice. Blending case studies with empirical research, this book will be an outstanding resource to theologians and researchers interested in Practical Theology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Religion and Anthropology.

Ritual and Ethnic Identity

Author : Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889202478
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Ethnic Identity written by Jack N. Lightstone and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy in six urban Canadian synagogues, ranging from Orthodox to Reform, and from large congregations to a small house synagogue-yeshiva (rabbinic academy). Their examination of synagogue ritual is complemented with accounts of the ritual life of contemporary Canadian Jews outside the synagogue — amongst their families, within their homes and beyond. In contrast with other studies of Jewish observance, Lightstone and Bird document not simply which rituals are practised and how often; rather they stress the meaning, including the social meaning, of these rituals and treat them as complex symbolic systems. Their multidisciplinary approach together with their openness to include a wide variety of phenomena in their study (for example, the organization of the physical setting of the Sabbath, dress codes and patterns of greeting and handshaking) place this work at the very forefront of current research. Ritual and Ethnic Identity will be of great value to historians and sociologists of religion, anthropologists and all those concerned with religion, ritual and Canadian Jewish and ethnic studies.

Belonging

Author : Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558964204
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Worship that Works

Author : Kathleen Rolenz
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558965928
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Worship that Works written by Kathleen Rolenz and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wayne Arnason and Kathleen Rolenz ... embarked on an eighteen-month sabbatical road trip in search of the cutting edge of innovation in worship culture. They attended services and interviewed worship leaders at thirty congregations of diverse sizes and traditions. ... Worship that Works provides practical, spiritual resonance of worship through symbols, music, cultural sensitivity, inclusion and more."--Pbk. cover.

Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000583902
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs. Islam is no exception here, and this Handbook covers many aspects of those beliefs and practices. It describes the variety of what takes place but mainly why, and what the implications of both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Islam. The book includes accounts of prayer, food, pilgrimage, mosques, and the various legal and doctrinal schools that exist within Islam, with the focus on how they influence practice. The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.

Worship and Christian Identity

Author : E. Byron Anderson
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814663249
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Worship and Christian Identity written by E. Byron Anderson and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship and Christian Identity argues that sacramental and liturgical practices are the central means by which a church shapes the faith, character, and consciousness of its members. Consequently, for any church to set aside such practices as outdated or irrelevant is to set aside the means by which the church nurtures and sustains its theological identity. From this perspective, Anderson explores the following questions: What is the relationship between worship and belief? What is the relationship between corporate worship and the formation of Christian persons and communities? What is the relationship between worship and our knowledge of ourselves, our world, and God? How might our attention to the reform and renewal of worship and sacramental practice provide a framework for theological, evangelical, and sacramental renewal? Questions of sacramental practice, inclusive or transformative language, and the renewal of congregational hymnody have been largely displaced by marketing questions and conflicts between "traditional" and ?contemporary? worship. The hour of worship is subdivided now into increasingly specialized ?target audiences? of singles, seekers, boomers, and ?X-ers? with worship carefully packaged as ?traditional? or ?contemporary.? What at various points has been understood as a ?means of grace? is now seen primarily as a ?means of numerical growth.? Missing in the conflict between ?traditional? and ?contemporary? worship is significant discussion of what is at stake for the identity of Christian persons and communities in the shape and practice of worship. Perhaps more surprising, discussion of the theological shape and practice of worship also has been absent in discussions concerning theological standards. These absences suggest that for many in the church today, worship is a means for expressing a community's belief but has little to do with the shape and character of that belief. The assumption that worship is only or primarily a pragmatic means for expressing a community?s belief stands in sharp contrast to the Christian tradition. This assumption also contrasts with the insights provided by recent work in ritual studies, psychology, and faith development. Worship and Christian Identity is an important book for faculty and students in seminary and graduate programs in liturgical studies and religious education, particularly those interested in the relationships between liturgical studies and practical theology, ritual studies and liturgical theology, as well as the role of worship in Christian formation. Chapters are ?Making Claims About Worship,? ?Worship as Ritual Knowledge,? ?Worship as Ritual Practice,? ?Trinitarian Grammar and the Christian Self,? ?Trinitarian Grammar and Liturgical Practice,? and ?A Vision of Christian Life.?

Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement

Author : Paul D Numrich
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813543053
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement written by Paul D Numrich and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of America’s history. Currently, about 40 percent of the nation’s annual population growth comes from the influx of foreign-born individuals and their children. As these new voices enter America’s public conversations, they bring with them a new understanding of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to a society that has been marked by religious variety. Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement takes an in-depth look at one particular urban area—the Chicago metropolitan region—and examines how religion affects the civic engagement of the nation’s newest residents. Chapters focus on important religious factors, including sectarianism, moral authority, and moral projects; on several areas of social life, including economics, education, marriage, and language, where religion impacts civic engagement; and on how notions of citizenship and community are influenced by sacred assemblies.