Imagining the kingdom : how worship works - Smith, James K. A., 1970- (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2013)
Sidebars: PICTURING THIS. Picturing the end of worship -- Picturing the limitations of worldview : reading Wendell Berry in Costco -- Picturing love and worship in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest -- Picturing a feel for the world in Bright Star -- Picturing kinaesthetic conversion in The King's Speech -- Picturing the pedagogy of insignificance with Carson McCullers -- Picturing secular liturgies in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine -- Picturing the sanctification of perception in Jewish morning prayer -- Picturing a reflective, sentimental education -- TO THINK ABOUT. Longing lead to action -- Learning the hard way when it's the only way -- Shaping a worldview in Downton Abbey -- Existential maps of our world -- Chicken sexing and nonconscious knowledge -- Motor intentionality in Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- "Catching" sleep -- Newman on faith as love -- Schooling as ritual performance -- Slouching toward ritual -- Metaphor as godfire -- I can't say; let me tell you a story -- War games -- Imagining the reformation of manners -- Story and the economy of abundance -- The poetry of prayer -- Praying a world(view) -- Love's litany.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Worship; Liturgics; Liturgy and the arts; Imagination; Philosophical anthropology