Melanie C. Ross is Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Her research lies at the intersection of ecumenical liturgical theology, North American evangelicalism, and the worship practices of contemporary congregations.
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: The Significance of Evangelical Worship
* Part I: Constancy versus Change
* Chapter 1: "My Worship Has Been Hijacked": Forty Years of Worship
Wars
* Chapter 2: "Stately and Set Apart": Upholding Tradition in Boston
* Chapter 3: "Suddenly We're in a Different Era": Navigating Transition
in Chicago
* Chapter 4: "Something Better Has Come Along": Championing Innovation
in Atlanta
* Part II: Consensus versus Contestation
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* Chapter 5: "How Can We Catch Fire?": Prophecy and Activism in the
Vineyard
* Chapter 6: "You Can't Make Me Sing": Resisting Authority in Portland
* Chapter 7: "Not to Sing is to Disobey": Submitting to Paradox in
Nashville
* Part III: Sameness versus Difference
* Chapter 8: "One Voice in Many Languages": Pentecostal Praises in the
American Southwest
* Chapter 9: "Navigating the Beautiful Tension": New Frontiers in
Evangelical Worship
* Appendix A: Research Methods
* Appendix B: Demographic Information
* Selected Bibliography
* Index
