Liturgy with a Difference

<p>Christian churches in recent decades have taken some steps in their practices of liturgy and worship toward acknowledging the graced dignity of human variety. But who is still excluded? What pernicious norms still govern below the surface and how might they be revealed? How do texts gestures and space abet and enforce such norms? How might Christian assemblies gather multiple expressions of human difference to propose through Christian liturgy patterns of graced interaction in the world around them?</p><p><em>Liturgy with a Difference</em> gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender culture ethnicity and body among others remain at work in congregations. </p><p>Together the chapters in this collection call for a liturgical practice that recognizes and rehearses the vivid richness of God’s image found in the human community and glimpsed if only for a moment in liturgical celebration. They point a way beyond mere inclusion toward a generous embrace of the many differences that make up the Christian community.  </p><p>With contributions from Rachel Mann Teresa Berger Susannah Cornwall Miguel A. DeLa Torre Edward Foley W. Scott Haldeman Michael Jagessar Bruce T. Morrill Kristine Suna-Koro and Frank Senn. </p>