(Trans)forming Praxis: Initial Rubrics for Liberating Song Leading

Abstract

Following a brief historical sketch of recent trends toward the renewal of congregational singing, this chapter analyzes three seminary chapel services. The chapter seeks to provide preliminary rubrics for liberating congregational singing that are contextual, accountable, and liberating. The analysis of these three examples focuses on congregational song leading using global hymnody. The rest of the book will extend, expand, and problematize the issues raised here in an ongoing praxiological process rooted in concrete experiences of song leading and congregational singing.