@ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780367888558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Teresa Berger

Opis

Digitally-mediated liturgical practices raise challenging questions: Are worshippers in an online chapel really a community at prayer? Do avatars that receive digital bread and wine receive communion? @ Worship is the first monograph dedicated to exploring online liturgical practices that have emerged since the introduction of Web 2.0.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Why, How, and What of Studying @ Worship  1 Virtual Bodies, Digital Presence, and Online Participation  2 Ecclesial Communities @ Worship  3 Virtual "Stuff": Materiality – Visuality – Soundscapes  4 Sacramental Bits and Bytes  Conclusions

O autorze

Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale University, USA. She holds appointments at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Münster, Berlin, and Uppsala. She has written and edited a number of books on liturgical studies, helped produce a video documentary entitled Worship in Women’s Hands (2007), and also writes regularly for the liturgy blog Pray Tell.