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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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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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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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