worship: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Mircea Eliade, Traité d’histoire des religions (1949; Eng. trans., Patterns in Comparative Religion, 1958), is a standard work with much information on worship. James G. Frazer, The Worship of Nature (1926), is a classic work but is now out of date. Walter Harrelson, From Fertility Cult to Worship (1969); and F.H. Hilliard, How Men Worship (1965), are popular, brief treatments of worship in the major religions. John S. Mbiti, Concepts of God in Africa (1970), has valuable source materials but is difficult to use because of the variety of materials placed together. Geoffrey Parrinder, Worship in the World’s Religions (1961), is a popular work, accurate and helpful, but brief. H.H. Rowley, Worship in Ancient Israel (1967), is a standard and comprehensive work. Evelyn Underhill, Worship (1936), is a standard work, still valuable, but now out of date. Geoffrey Wainwright, Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life (1980), argues that all Christian themes come to a focus in worship.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Learn Religions - Appropriate Worship - Honoring the Gods the Way They Want. | Feb 18, 2022 | ||
| Images added. | Jun 20, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 27, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Sep 19, 1998 |