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Top Book Recommendations

Articles by Michael Bausch:

Other Articles, Books and Website Resources about Media and Worship:


Adams, Doug.  Eyes To See Wholeness: Visual Arts Informing Biblical and Theological Studies.  Prescott:   Educational Ministries, 1995.

Babin, Pierre.  The New Era In Religious Communication.  Minneapolis:  The Fortress Press, 1991.

Bausch, Michael G. Silver Screen, Sacred Story: Using Multimedia in Worship. Silver Spring: The Alban Institute, 2002.

________________.  Using Video Resources in the Worship Setting.  New Brighton:  United Theological Seminary, 1997.

Detweiler, Craig and Barry Taylor.  A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.

Hammar, Richard R.  The Church Guide to Copyright Law.  Matthew:  Christian Ministry Resources, 2001.

Jewell, John P.  Wired For Ministry: How the Internet, Visual Media, and Other New Technologies Can Serve Your Church.  Grand Rapids:  Brazos Press, 2004.

Lanham, Richard A.  The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Macciolo, Tom and Rich Macciolo.  Purpose, Movement, Color:  A Strategy For Effective Presentations.  New York:  MediaNet, Inc. 1994.

Ong, Walter J.  Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.  New York:  Routledge, 2002.

Panofsky, Erwin.  Meaning in the Visual Arts.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Read, Herbert.  Icon and Idea.  New York:  Schocken Books, 1972.

Romanowski, William D.  Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture.  Grand Rapids:  Brazos Press, 2001.

Sample, Tex.  The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World: Electronic Culture and the Gathered People of God.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1998.

Sanders, Barry.  A Is For Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1994.

Schulze, Quentin J.  High Tech Worship: Using Presentational Technologies Wisely.  Grand Rapids:  Baker Books, 2004.

Shlain, Leonard.  The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image.  New York:  Viking Press, 1998.

Stevens, Mitchell.  The Rise of the Image and the Fall of the Word.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1998.

Tillich, Paul.  Theology of Culture.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1959.

White, Susan J.  Christian Worship and Technological Change.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1994.

Wilson, Len and Jason Moore.  Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 2002.


Website Resources

Hollywood Jesus

Multisensory Worship.com
 
   What people in the field are saying about multi-sensory worship.

Movie Mission

My Web Church

Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy
 
  
A discussion about using film in the church.

Textweek

The Networked Church
 
   This call for a new kind of church identifies one of the essential challenges of using multimedia in worship.

Resources from the Alban Institute