On earth as in heaven? : liturgy, materiality, and economics / edited by Melanie C. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Liturgy Conference (6th : 2023), author.

Contributor:

Ross, Melanie C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgics--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Liturgics.

Christianity--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Christianity.

Material culture--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press Academic, [2025]

Summary:

"Explore the ways material economies have underlain past liturgical practices and continue to underlie our worship today. Because the "stuff" of Christian worship is inextricably enmeshed in the marketplace, it seems that our liturgical practices, materiality, and economics are forever intertwined. In On Earth as in Heaven? leading scholars who presented the 2023 Yale Institute of Sacred Music liturgy conference break new disciplinary ground by investigating complex dynamics of liturgical production, distribution, and power throughout history. This collection critically engages the tension between 'earthly' materialities and eschatological visions of Christian hope, offering innovative methodologies, case studies, and approaches that promise to stimulate further research in liturgical studies and beyond." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Part 1. Bread, oil, water, waste.

True bread : medieval patriarchs, ancient rabbis, and the modern magisterium on leavening, fermentation, and gluten / Andrew McGowan

Oleoculture : the production, ritual use, and reservation of "the fruit of the olive" in the early church / Nathan P. Chase

Hydrocapitalist transubstantiations : water, wealth, and the rite of Christian baptism / Andrew Vander Tuig

On trash and other liturgical things / Andrew J. M. Irving

Part 2. Manuscripts.

Expensive blessings in the Syriac liturgical tradition / Ephrem Aboud Ishac

Beyond the deluxe : early medieval liturgical production in "modest" manuscripts / Tyler D. Sampson

"To what purpose is this waste?" : luxury illumination and utilitarian decoration in medieval mass books / Innocent Smith

Part 3. Reformation and early modern economies.

The cost of practicing religion / Esther Chung-Kim

A clock of capitalism? : the afterlife of monastic time in reformation Geneva / Jenny Smith

Christian ritual in British slave societies, 1650-1780 / Nicholas M. Beasley

The price of praise : the musical environment of the parishes of Ath, in Hainaut, in the eighteenth century / Brigitte Van Wymeersch

Part 4. Contemporary explorations.

Enslavement museums : pilgrimage, dark tourism, and social reconciliation / Kimberly Hope Belcher

Spotify thy name, or worshipping in the age of playlists / Joshua Kalin Busman

Mass appeal : music, materiality, and the market in the postconciliar U.S. Catholic Church / Antonio Eduardo Alonso.

Notes:

"Papers from the 6th Yale ISM Liturgy conference, June 12-15, 2023".

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: On Earth as in Heaven?

ISBN:

9780814689189

0814689183

OCLC:

1484065298

Publisher Number:

90102539466