Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices

Charles E. Farhadian is professor of world religions and Christian mission at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. His other books include Introducing World Religions: A Christian Engagement and The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion.

Jonathan J. Bonk
— executive director, Overseas Ministries Study Center
"This book is a kind of kaleidoscope, illuminating surprisingly variegated forms of Christian worship through time and across cultures. With contributions by some of the most accomplished contemporary interpreters of world Christianity, Christian Worship Worldwide frequently sparkles with a luminosity that delights even as it enlightens."

Karen Westerfield Tucker
— Boston University
"Worship is the central action of the church, no matter the location or sociocultural context. Yet many of the books written on the subject of Christian worship and its related topics pay little attention to praxis in the non-Western world. This collection of essays, written by scholars from a variety of academic disciplines and cultural experiences, helps to fill the gap in the literature by offering theological reflections on worship, culture, and globalization, and by acquainting the reader with representative worship practices and expressions of faith found in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. Pastors, seminarians, and specialists in liturgy, cultural studies, missiology, and evangelism — or any person interested in understanding the connection of Christian worship to a global body of Christ — will find great value in this resource."