Liturgy with a Difference
Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2019
288 pages
978-0-334-05742-0 (ISBN)
Description
Liturgy with a Difference gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender, culture, ethnicity, and body, among others, remain at work in congregations.
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Vivid Richness of God's Image
- Part 1: The Case for Difference
- 1. 'How Beautiful the Feet': Discerning the Assembly's Path on Holy Thursday
- 2. Acts of Uniformity
- Part 2: Leadership and Ministry Through Liturgy
- 3. 'The Performance of Queerness': Trans Priesthood as Gesture Towards a Queered Liturgical Assembly
- 4. All Things to All? Requeering Stuart's Eucharistic Erasure of Priestly Sex
- 5. The Queer Body in the Wedding
- 6. I Had to Do It for My Son: The Story of a Same-Sex Wedding
- Part 3: Liturgy in Migration: People, Culture and Language
- 7. Liturgy, Language and Diaspora: Some Reflections on Inclusion as Integration by a Migratory Liturgical Magpie
- 8. Liturgy's Missional Character: Trusting Truth in Real Bodies of Culture and Tradition
- 9. 'beyond words, gestures and spaces - evoking and imagining liturgical contradictions'
- Part 4: Liturgy and Mission in the World
- 10. 'All Are Welcome?': A Sermon
- 11. Preaching in an Age of Disaffiliation: Respecting Dissent While Keeping the Faith
- 12. Worship Through Sanctuary
- Appendix 1. Same-Gender Union
- Appendix 2. The Marriage Service of Benjamin Bauer and Nicholas Senn
