Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Open Your Heart
Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Based on in-depth interviews...
Singing the Rite to Belong
Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting Ireland's...
Remembering the Future
The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Common to both Judaism and Christianity is a heightened engagement with time within liturgical practice, in which collective religious memory and anticipation come together to create a unique sense of time. Exploring the nebulous realms of religious experience and the sense of time, Remembering the...
The Spirit of Praise
Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
In The Spirit of Praise, Monique Ingalls and Amos Yong bring together a multidisciplinary, scholarly exploration of music and worship in global pentecostal-charismatic Christianity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Spirit of Praise contends that gaining a full understanding of this...
by Middendorf, Jesse C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Church Ritual Handbook provides pastors with a meaningful tool for the services they perform as shepherds of the flock of God. Covering a wide array of services, from less common rituals to the more known practices, this updated and expanded edition gives pastors immediate practical helps to service...
Stations of the Light
Renewing the Ancient Christian Practice of the Via Lucis as a Spiritual Tool for Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This is the first book to introduce the fourteen joyful and highly symbolic events that make up the Via Lucis, the Christian Way of Light, an ancient spiritual tradition celebrating the post-Resurrection life of Christ on Earth.
The Stations of the Light, with its “good news” of healing...
Earthed in Hope
Dying, Death and Funerals – A Pakeha Anglican Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
From the Foreword:
"Alister Hendery is offering us a great gift in this beautiful, resource-filled and comprehensive book. He has aimed to assist those within Tikanga Pakeha of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand to undertake ministry with the dying and the bereaved with creativity...
When I Was a Child
Children's Interpretations of First Communion
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually...
Creating Church Online
Ritual, Community and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations, generating new kinds of ritual,...
The Catholic Home
Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
A practical, inspiring guide to Catholic observances and celebrations for the home.
For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to...
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity
Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
What can we learn from early Christian imagery about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, a leading scholar of early Christian art and worship, examines multiple dimensions of the early Christian baptismal rite. She explores five models for understanding baptism--as cleansing from sin,...
Christian Theologies of the Sacraments
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Delves into the ancient debate regarding the nature and purpose of the seven sacraments
What are the sacraments? For centuries, this question has elicited a lively discussion and among theologians, and a variety of answers that do anything but outline a unified belief concerning these fundamental...
The Gospel of Mark
A Liturgical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings of Jesus
Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their understanding of God, Christ, and the...
Embodied Liturgy
Lessons in Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Embodied Liturgy marks a “return to the body” in thinking about Christian liturgy and sacramental practice. Rooted in phenomenology and incarnational theology, the book gives primary focus to the body as it considers the prayer offices and the liturgical calendar, sacrifices and sacraments, initiation...