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Intimacy and Orthodoxy: Evaluating Existing Paradigms of Contemporary Worship Music

Missiology: An International Review, 2007
Contemporary worship music is a window through which we can examine the themes and preoccupations of people. Emotional privation, woundedness and alienation are major themes in contemporary Christian music. Reflecting this cultural reality, contemporary music emphasizes the subjective and focuses on the self rather than on God.
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Worship space acoustics and architecture for contemporary services with modern music

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017
In relatively recent time, some religious worship facilities are presenting a contemporary worship service with music that can be considered modern and different from the more traditional music produced by an organ, piano, groups that employ instruments as used by a symphony orchestra, and by a choir.
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Mainline Protestantism and Contemporary versus Traditional Worship Music

2015
This chapter explores the ways American mainline pastors, musicians, and laypeople navigate the divergent media economies of hymnody and popular music and accommodate both by creating multiple worship services—shared by a single congregation—that reflect the aesthetics and symbolic resonances of each repertoire.
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Reflection on the Paradigms of Music in the Contemporary Worship Renewal

Theology and Praxis, 2022
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Whose Worship? An Examination of Women’s Gendered Experiences in the Contemporary Worship Music Industry

For Evangelical Christians in North America, the contemporary worship music industry is the primary source of music for radio play, private devotion, and Sunday morning worship services (Ingalls 2018). As the industry has developed, it has become increasingly difficult for women to pursue musical leadership (Loepp Thiessen 2022).
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Incongruity, Irony, and Maturity in Contemporary Worship Music: An Extended Burkeian Analysis of A Collision

The Journal of Communication and Religion, 2014
This essay examines David Crowder’s award-winning contemporary worship album A Collision using an expanded Burkeian toolkit. I show that it takes the romantic tendencies in contemporary worship to the end of the line, causing them to collide with carefully planned realism yet eliding the tragicomic social dimension of the gospel.
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Contemporary Praise and Worship Music

2020
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Contemporary Music and Congregational Worship

The Expository Times, 1965
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When songs replace Scripture: contemporary worship music and the transformation of congregational formation

Theology
This article examines how contemporary worship music’s (CWM’s) emphasis on personal emotion over biblical content affects congregational spiritual formation. While offering genuine benefits for emotional engagement, CWM’s predominant focus on subjective experience may undermine biblical literacy and theological understanding.
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“Church is the New Radio”: Worship and the WOW Series (1996–2019)

Liturgy, 2023
Deborah Ann Wong
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