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How So,\u201d and Bruce Kapferer, \u201cRitual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning,\u201d (New York: Berghahn, 2005): 1-54.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Lathrop,\u00a0<em>Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>Robin Leaver and Joyce Ann Zimmerman, <em>Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning<\/em> (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998): Chapters 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Long, <em>Accompany Them with Singing &#8211; The Christian Funeral<\/em> (Louisville: Westminster-John Knox, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Mitchell, <em>Cult and Controversy: The Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass<\/em> (Collegeville: Pueblo, 1992): 310-366.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Morrill, <em>Divine Worship and Human Healing: Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death<\/em> (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Schmemann, <em>For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy<\/em> (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir\u2019s Seminary Press, 1982).<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Spinks and John\u00a0Fenwick, <em>Worship in Transition: The Liturgical Movement in the Twentieth<\/em> Century (New York: Continuum, 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Stevenson, <em>To Join Together: The Rite of Marriage<\/em> (New York: Pueblo, 1987).<\/p>\n<p>Paul Turner, <em>Confirmation: The Baby in Solomon\u2019s Court<\/em> (Chicago: Hillenbrand, 2007).<\/p>\n<p>Johan Van Parys, <em>Symbols that Surround Us<\/em> (Liguori, Missouri: Liguori, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Vincie, <em>Celebrating Divine Mystery: A Primer in Liturgical Theology<\/em> (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Vorgrimler, <em>Sacramental Theology,<\/em> trans. 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Maloney (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1992).<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen Westerfield Tucker, editors, <em>The Oxford History of Christian Worship<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maxwell Johnson, \u201cThe Apostolic Tradition,\u201d 32-76;<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Rentel, \u201cByzantine and Slavic Orthodoxy,\u201d 254-306;<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Mitchell, \u201cReforms, Protestant and Catholic,\u201d 307-350;<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Wainwright, \u201cEcumenical Convergences,\u201d 721-754.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caroline Bynum Walker,\u00a0\u201cWomen Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century,\u201d in <em>Fragmentation and Redemption<\/em> (Boston: Zone, 1991): 119-150.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lectionary and Its Reading,\u201d in <em>Liturgy: Journal of The Liturgical Conference<\/em> 29.4 (October-December 2014):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fritz West, \u201cThe Lectionary and its Readings: Introduction\u201d and \u201cLectionary Triangulated: Insights from the Late Twentieth Century,\u201d 1-10;<\/li>\n<li>Alan F. Detscher, \u201cMy Word Shall Not Return to Me Empty: The Lectionary as Ecumenical Event,\u201d 11-17;<\/li>\n<li>Kimberly Bracken Long, \u201cFeasting at the Table of the Word: The Liturgical Generativity of the Lectionary,\u201d 18-26;<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Andrew Leitzke, \u201cLectionaries and Little Narratives: Children of the Revised Common Lectionary,\u201d 27-32;<\/li>\n<li>Martin Connell, \u201cOn Liturgy and Lectionary: The Word of Life in the Body of Christ,\u201d 33-37;<\/li>\n<li>Gail Ramshaw, \u201cChrist in the Sea Monster: Biblical Imagery and the Proclamation of the Gospel,\u201d 38-45;<\/li>\n<li>Ephraim Radner, \u201cLectionary and the Figural Meaning of the Scriptures,\u201d 56-62.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>James White, <em>Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transition<\/em> (Louisville: Westminster, 1989).<\/p>\n<p>Susan Wood, <em>Ordering the Baptismal Priesthood: Theologies of Lay and Ordained<\/em> (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of comprehensive exams, the Liturgical Studies student is responsible for a rather extensive reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-teaching-liturgy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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