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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0197530771 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780197530771

Author:   Melanie C. Ross 

Say the words “evangelical worship” to anyone in the United States — even if they are not particularly religious — and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky. Yet despite the centrality of this image, many scholars have underestimated evangelical worship as little more than a manipulative effort to arouse devotional exhilaration. It is frequently dismissed as a reiteration of nineteenth-century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment — three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk. But by failing to engage this worship seriously, we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world.Evangelical Worship offers a new way forward in the study of American evangelical Christianity. Weaving together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies, and drawing on extensive fieldwork in seven congregations, Melanie C. Ross brings contemporary evangelical worship to life. She argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral “extra” tacked on to a fully-formed spiritual, political, and cultural movement, but rather the crucible through which congregations forge, argue over, and enact their unique contributions to the American mosaic known as evangelicalism.

Evangelical Worship : An American Mosaic 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Constancy versus Change
1. “My Worship Has Been Hijacked”: Forty Years of Worship Wars
2. “Stately and Set Apart”: Upholding Tradition in Boston
3. “Suddenly We’re in a Different Era”: Navigating Transition in Chicago
4. “Something Better Has Come Along”: Championing Innovation in Atlanta
Part II: Consensus versus Contestation
5. “How Can We Catch Fire?”: Prophecy and Activism in the Vineyard
6. “You Can’t Make Me Sing”: Resisting Authority in Portland
7. “Not to Sing Is to Disobey”: Submitting to Paradox in Nashville
Part III: Sameness versus Difference
8. “One Voice in Many Languages”: Pentecostal Praises in the American Southwest
9. “Navigating the Beautiful Tension”: Evangelical Worship as Eschatological Culture

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