Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Dedication -- 1 Liturgical Theology in Context -- Methodological assumptions -- The Context: Worship at The Riverside Church in New York City -- The Worship Roundtable: Formation and Process -- A Scholar's Role: Turning to History -- 2 "Once You were No People … Now You are God's People": An Analytical Narrative of the Construction of African-American Protestant Liturgical Traditions -- Slave Religion: The Seedbed of African-American Protestant Worship -- Visibility, Separation, and the Solidification of Classical African-American Liturgies -- African-American Folk Religion and Improvisational Worship -- Conclusion -- 3 "Cities on Hills": An Analytical Narrative of the Construction of European-American Protestant Liturgical Traditions -- Mainline worship: from Margin to Center -- The Enthusiast stream: The Democratization of American Christianity -- Conclusion -- 4 Barriers Built, Barriers Broken: The Intersection of African-American and European-American Liturgical Traditions -- Four Currents Flowing Side by Side -- Previous Occasions of Biracial worship -- Conclusion -- 5 "Discerning the Body": US Racism, Protestant Worship and Sacramental Theology -- Racism and the Integrity of Protestant Worship -- The "Shape" of the Ecumenical Liturgical Reform Movement and African-American Liturgical Innovations -- The Multicultural Body of Christ -- Notes to text -- Bibliography -- Index.

Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they have done so as slave and master, outsider and insider, oppressed and oppressor. Scott Haldeman traces the development of Protestant worship among whites and blacks, showing that the following exist in tension: African American and European American Protestant liturgical traditions are both interdependent and distinct; and that multicultural communities must both understand and celebrate the uniqueness of various member groups while also accepting the risk and possibility of praying themselves into an integrated body, one new culture.

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