Towards Liturgies that Reconcile

Scott Haldeman is Assistant Professor of Worship at Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founding convener of the African American Liturgical Traditions Seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy, he studies worship traditions in U.S. Protestantism too often neglected by scholars in order to sketch a truer portrait of the diversity of worship among the churches, both historically and today. His publications include "American Racism and the Promise of Pentecost" in Liturgy: No Longer Strangers 14:4 (Washington, DC: The Liturgical Conference), 34-50.

Contents: Preface; Liturgical theology in context; 'Once you were no people...now you are God's people': an analytical narrative of the construction of African-American Protestant liturgical traditions; 'Cities on hills': an analytical narrative of the construction of European-American Protestant liturgical traditions; Barriers built, barriers broken: the intersection of African-American and European-American liturgical traditions; 'Discerning the body': US racism, Protestant worship, and sacramental theology; Notes to text; Bibliography; Index.