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Overview"""American Methodist Worship is the most comprehensive history of worship among John Wesley's various American spiritual descendents that has ever been written. It will be a foundational book for anyone who wishes to understand how American Methodists have worshipped.""-Sacramental Life""This groundbreaking study will help to reshape the way that we think about early American Methodist worship and how it connects to more recent trends.""-- The Journal of Religion""Karen Westerfield Tucker's exhaustive examination of the history of American Methodist worship may indeed launch a new genre in liturgical historiography: denominational liturgical histories. The genius of this contribution is its comprehensiveness in examining for the first time the worship life of an American ecclesiological tradition.""--Doxology" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (Professor of Worship, Professor of Worship, School of Theology, Boston University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 15.60cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9780199774159ISBN 10: 0199774153 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 10 November 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction The Lord's Day: The Shape of Worship The Lord's Day: Ordinary and Propers The Great Festivals of the Methodists The Rites of Christian Initiation The Lord's Supper The Music of Methodist Worship The Solemnization of Christian Marriage Methodist Funerals Devotion and Discipleship A House for Worship Roles in Public Worship American Methodist Worship: Memory and Modernization Notes IndexReviewsMeticulously researched, the book is the gold standard for the writing of Methodist liturgical history, especially American. It is clearly the most comprehensive history of worship among the variety of American Methodists. * Manchester Wesley Research Centre * Meticulously researched, the book is the gold standard for the writing of Methodist liturgical history, especially American. It is clearly the most comprehensive history of worship among the variety of American Methodists. Manchester Wesley Research Centre Author InformationProfessor of Worship at Boston University. Author of The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism (Abingdon/Kingswood, 1996) and co-editor with Geoffrey Wainwright of The Oxford History of Christian Worship (Oxford University Press, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |