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A sociological history of Christian worship / Martin D. Stringer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0511126085
  • 9780511126086
  • 0511125224
  • 9780511125225
  • 9780521819558
  • 0521819555
  • 9780521525596
  • 0521525594
  • 1107145279
  • 9781107145276
  • 1280430613
  • 9781280430619
  • 0511199481
  • 9780511199486
  • 0511300158
  • 9780511300158
  • 0511614675
  • 9780511614675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sociological history of Christian worship.DDC classification:
  • 264/.009 22
LOC classification:
  • BV5 .S77 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.05
  • BS 7190
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Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction Discourse, devotion and embodiment; Chapter 1 Early Christian worship, texts and contexts to AD 300; Chapter 2 Worship and the Christianisation of public space, 300-600; Chapter 3 Hegemonic discourses in the worship of empires, 600-900; Chapter 4 The dominant discourse of cosmological Christianity, 900-1200; Chapter 5 Accessing the demotic discourses of devotion, 1200-1500; Chapter 6 Worship and the rise of humanistic discourses, 1500-1800; Chapter 7 The globalisation of Christian worship, 1800-2000.
Summary: A 2000 year history of Christian worship in its social contexts around the globe combining sociological theory, social history and the latest developments in the study of liturgy. The focus of this book sets it apart from existing studies which tend to offer textual or theological approaches to worship.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction Discourse, devotion and embodiment; Chapter 1 Early Christian worship, texts and contexts to AD 300; Chapter 2 Worship and the Christianisation of public space, 300-600; Chapter 3 Hegemonic discourses in the worship of empires, 600-900; Chapter 4 The dominant discourse of cosmological Christianity, 900-1200; Chapter 5 Accessing the demotic discourses of devotion, 1200-1500; Chapter 6 Worship and the rise of humanistic discourses, 1500-1800; Chapter 7 The globalisation of Christian worship, 1800-2000.

A 2000 year history of Christian worship in its social contexts around the globe combining sociological theory, social history and the latest developments in the study of liturgy. The focus of this book sets it apart from existing studies which tend to offer textual or theological approaches to worship.

English.