A Sociological History of Christian Worship (Hardcover)

Introduction: discourse, devotion and embodiment; 1. Early Christian worship, texts and contexts to AD 300; 2. Worship and the Christianisation of public spaces 300?600; 3. Hegemonic discourses in the worship of Empires 600?900; 4. The dominant discourse of cosmological Christianity 900?1200; 5. Accessing the demotic discourses of devotion 1200?1500; 6. Worship and the rise of humanistic discourses 1500?1800; 7. The globalisation of Christian worship 1800?2000.