Ritual and Conversion

Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bell, Catherine, ed. Teaching Ritual. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Cuneo, Terence. Ritualized Faith: Essays on the Philosophy of Liturgy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016.

Dix, Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. New York: Seabury Press, 1983.

Duggan, Robert D. Conversion and the Catechumenate. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Pr., 1984.

Finn, Thomas. From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.

Finn, Thomas. “It Happened One Saturday Night: Ritual and Conversion in Augustine’s North Africa.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 58 (1990): 589–616.

Finn, Thomas. “Ritual Process and the Survival of Early Christianity: A Study of the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus,” Journal of Ritual Studies 3, no. 1 (1989): 69–89.

Hughes, Graham.Worship As Meaning: A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Humphrey, Carolyn, and James Laidlaw. The Archetypal Actions of Ritual. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Johnson, Dru. Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments . Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2019.

Johnson, Dru. Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016.

Johnson, Maxwell E. The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2007.

McCall, Richard D. Do This: Liturgy as Performance. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

McGowan, Andrew B. Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspectives. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014.

Miller, Daniel. “An Elegant Sufficiency: Symbol and Gesture in Christian Initiation.” Catechumenate: A Journal of Christian Initiation 24, no. 6 (November 2002): 2–13.

Mills, Kenneth, and Anthony Grafton. Conversion: Old Worlds and New. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. 

Mills, Kenneth, and Anthony Grafton. Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.

O’Donnell, Emma. Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2015.

Saxer, Victor. Les rites de l’initiation chrétienne du IIe au VIe siècle. Esquisse historique et signification d’après leurs principaux témoins. Spoleto, 1988.

Senn, Frank C. Embodied Liturgy : Lessons in Christian Ritual . Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2016.

Smith, James K. A.  Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013.

Smith, Gordon T. Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation. Downers Grove: IVP, 2001.

Smith, Gordon T. Transforming Conversion: Rethinking the Language and Contours of Christian Initiation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010.

Taliaferro, Charles. “Ritual and Christian Philosophy.” In Thinking through Rituals, edited by Kevin Schilbrack, 238–50. New York: Routledge, 2004. 

Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. 1966; repr., London: Routledge, 1996).

Wolterstorff, Nicholas.  Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.