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Book Review: Liturgy's Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today

Book Review: Liturgy's Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical... ATR/99.4 812 Anglican Theological Review Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writ- ing of Liturgical History Today. Edited by Teresa Berger and Bryan D. Spinks. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2016. xii + 324 pp. $34.95 (paper). In recent decades, historical studies has undergone major shifts in methodology: from emphasizing causation to searching for meaning; becom- ing more interdisciplinary; giving greater attention to the lives of ordinary people; and acknowledging the subjectivity of researchers. To explore these developments, an international conference held in 2014 at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music brought together liturgical scholars and historians who have contributed to liturgical studies. This collection of papers from that conference begins with Bryan Spinks’s survey of contemporary historical methodologies. Turning to ex- amples of liturgical scholarship that utilizes these methodologies, Spinks notes that “current agendas often color how a liturgical past is imagined” (p. 11) and cautions against agenda-driven studies that distort interpretation of liturgical data. Spinks’s coeditor and colleague at Yale, Teresa Berger, con- siders how gender has factored in the writing of liturgical history, from the obliviousness of the early twentieth century, to studies that added women, and now those that attend to gender differences, moving http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Liturgy's Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today

Meyers, Ruth A.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 99 (4): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/99.4 812 Anglican Theological Review Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writ- ing of Liturgical History Today. Edited by Teresa Berger and Bryan D. Spinks. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2016. xii + 324 pp. $34.95 (paper). In recent decades, historical studies has undergone major shifts in methodology: from emphasizing causation to searching for meaning; becom- ing more interdisciplinary; giving greater attention to the lives of ordinary people; and acknowledging the subjectivity of researchers. To explore these developments, an international conference held in 2014 at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music brought together liturgical scholars and historians who have contributed to liturgical studies. This collection of papers from that conference begins with Bryan Spinks’s survey of contemporary historical methodologies. Turning to ex- amples of liturgical scholarship that utilizes these methodologies, Spinks notes that “current agendas often color how a liturgical past is imagined” (p. 11) and cautions against agenda-driven studies that distort interpretation of liturgical data. Spinks’s coeditor and colleague at Yale, Teresa Berger, con- siders how gender has factored in the writing of liturgical history, from the obliviousness of the early twentieth century, to studies that added women, and now those that attend to gender differences, moving

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