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31 maj 2021 · One would most likely find striking differences between liturgical and non-liturgical services, or between conservative-fundamentalist and liberal-progressist congregations, or between salvation versus social justice-orientated churches.
21 sty 2022 · We formulated three hypotheses related to worship, social bonding and moral values in this exploratory study. First, the frequent use of music and/or other synchronous activity within public worship would correlate with higher levels of felt connectedness to one’s congregation.
The rituals, the worship of icons, and the belief in supernatural beings “excite, maintain or recreate certain mental states” that bring people together, provide a ritual and symbolic focus, and unify them. This type of analysis became the basis of the functionalist perspective in sociology.
In this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts.
Sociological and anthropological theory of the first half of the twentieth century proposes that ritual—secular or sacred—binds groups together, ensuring their harmonious functioning by generating and maintaining orders of meaning, purpose, and value.
4 mar 2019 · In an effort to engage with public life from the perspective of theology, they both develop an understanding of liturgy that does not restrict it to a practice within a Christian context. Instead, they argue that liturgies are practices that also are observable within secular contexts.
This chapter proposes a methodological shift in both philosophy of religion and sociology of religion that rejects what Charles Taylor terms “intellectualism”: a methodological paradigm that has the theoretical radar to pick up on “secular liturgies” yet remains religious.
