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Symbolized Reality: Liturgy and Tabletop Role-Playing Games 符号化的现实:礼仪和桌面角色扮演游戏

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063X.2021.1990667

Benjamin Durheim

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.2020039

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Dancing with Death: Finding Ritual Rhythms on the Dancefloor 与死亡跳舞：在舞池里寻找仪式节奏

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.1990646

M. Minister

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The Liturgy of Sports: Or How to Celebrate Contingency without Believing That God Loves Tom Brady More Than Everyone Else 体育礼仪：或者如何在不相信上帝比其他人更爱汤姆·布雷迪的情况下庆祝意外事件

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063X.2021.1990654

Jason M. Smith

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Religion Outside of Religion 宗教之外的宗教

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.1990644

D. Turnbloom

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Unmute Yourself: How to Know Whether and How to Offer Online Worship Options 放松自己：如何知道是否以及如何提供在线崇拜选项

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.1990645

Taylor W. Burton-Edwards

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Reflections on a Year of Eucharistic Fasting 圣体禁食一年的反思

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/0458063X.2021.1951085

Stephanie Perdew

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Why Don’t We Sing about That? 我们为什么不唱出来呢?

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.1951083

David Bjorlin

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Confessions of a Liturgical Historian: A Journey of Rethinking the Bible’s Importance When Discussing Worship; or, What I Am Now Learning from Pentecostals and Evangelicals 一位礼仪史家的告白:重新思考圣经在讨论敬拜中的重要性或者，我现在从五旬节派和福音派中学到了什么

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/0458063X.2021.1951087

L. Ruth

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Fruits of the Liturgical Renewal Movement: Introduction 礼仪更新运动的成果:导言

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Liturgy Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/0458063x.2021.1951094

Stephanie Perdew

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