American Methodist Worship [Paperback]

American Methodist Worshipis 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

Introduction
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
Index

Professor of Worship at Boston University. Author ofThe Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism(Abingdon/Kingswood, 1996) and co-editor with Geoffrey Wainwright ofThe Oxford History of Christian Worship(Oxford University Press, 2006).