Worship That Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation (Engaging Worship)

by Alexis D. Abernethy

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2008

Overview

Recent years have seen widespread changes in worship, and numerous studies have considered the importance of those changes for the church. This volume offers a balanced and wide-ranging approach that focuses particularly on the relationship between worship and spiritual transformation.

This book, the second in the new Engaging Worship series, is divided into three sections. The first considers the connections between worship and spiritual development, the second looks at the role of the arts in the church, and the third examines the results of multidenominational studies of spiritual experience in worship.

The contributors offer a unique collection of perspectives, both practical and academic, on contemporary changes in the worship of the church. Professional and academic readers will find this an engaging and enlightening work.

Product Details

• Title: Worship that Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation
• Author: Alexis D. Abernethy
• Series: Engaging Worship
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 285
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Worship; Spiritual formation; Christianity and the arts
• ISBNs: 9780801031946, 080103194X
• Resource ID: LLS:WRSHPTTRNSFRMTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-20T19:46:21Z

About Alexis D. Abernethy

Alexis Abernethy joined Fuller in 1998, serving as professor of psychology. Prior to coming to Fuller, she was on faculty within the Psychology Division of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center for 12 years. Abernethy’s primary research interest is the intersection between spirituality and health, and she has received grants from the California Cancer Research Program, the National Cancer Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. Recent areas of study include the relationship between religiousness and prostate screening among African American men and cultural factors among African American men that facilitate and impede colorectal and prostate cancer screening. She has also researched religious coping and depression among spouses of people with lung cancer, as well as the subjective experience of worship within and across ethnic and denominational groups and the connection of worship to behavioral and health-related outcomes. Additionally, while at the University of Rochester Medical Center, she and her colleagues developed a new eight-item scientific measure of spirituality called the Spiritual Transcendence Index (STI). Abernethy has published articles in journals such as Health Education and Behavior, Multicultural Counseling and Development, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and Psychosomatic Medicine, and recently edited the book, Worship That Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation, published by Baker Academic in November 2008. Her clinical specialties include adult individual and group psychotherapy, and she frequently serves as a research consultant to various projects that seek to utilize a culturally competent approach.