Books about alternative worship & the emerging church

• Alternative Worship | Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05396-0
  A resource book & CD-ROM with theoretical and contextual essays about alternative worship
• Alternative Worship | Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown
  Baker | ISBN 0-8010-9170-5
  US edition with new foreword by Sally Morgenthaler
• Alternative Worship in the Church of England | Paul Roberts
  Grove Books | ISBN 1-85174-415-0
  Alternative Worship theology and practice in the Church of England
• Ancient Faith Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Tradition | Steven Croft & Ian Mobsbsy
  Canterbury Press | ISBN 978-1853119736
  Creative worship practitioners from traditional wings of the church tell their stories and reflect theologically on the initiatives they are exploring.
• The Art of Curating Worship | Mark Pierson
  Sparkhouse Press | ISBN 978-1-4514-0084-7
  The role of worship leader reshaped as event curator
• Curating Worship | Jonny Baker
  SPCK | ISBN 978-0-281-06235-5
  Curation as a methodology for creating worship experiences, including interviews with notable practitioners
• The Emerging Church | Dan Kimball
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-24564-8
  Postmodern church explained for the mainstream US context
• Emerging Churches | Eddie Gibbs & Ryan K Bolger
  Baker Academic | ISBN 0-8010-2715-2
  In-depth analysis of the missonal theology and praxis of US/UK emerging churches, based on wide-ranging interviews
• Emerging and Fresh Expressions of Church: How Are They Authentically Church and Anglican? | Ian Mobsby
  Moot Community Publishing | ISBN 978-0955514005
  Exploring the theology, sociology and spirituality behind some emerging & Fresh Expressions of Church in the UK and US
• Emerging Worship | Dan Kimball
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25644-5
  Creating worship gatherings for new generations
• How [not] to speak of God | Peter Rollins
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05798-2
  From right belief to believing in the right way: an a/theology for the emerging church. Illustrated through 10 transcripts of Ikon services
• The Out of Bounds Church? | Steve Taylor
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25904-5
  DJs, cybermonks and tour guides - the emerging church around the globe
• The Prodigal Project | Mike Riddell, Mark Pierson, Cathy Kirkpatrick
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05250-6
  The theory and practice of Alternative Worship, from its most famous Australasian practitioners. Includes case studies and multimedia CD-ROM
• Refreshing Worship | Kevin & Brian Draper
  Bible Reading Fellowship | ISBN 1-84101-146-0
  An accessible guide to the whys and hows of Alternative Worship, from the originators of Labyrinth
• Reimagining Spiritual Formation | Doug Pagitt
  Emergent-YS | ISBN 0-310-25687-9
  A week in the life of an experimental church
• Remixing the Church | Doug Gay
  SCM Press | ISBN 978-0-334-04396-6
  Towards an emerging ecclesiology - emergence interpreted through the categories of auditing, retrieval, unbundling, supplementing and remixing.
• The Rise and Fall of the Nine O'clock Service | Roland Howard
  Mowbray | ISBN 0-264-67419-7
  How a famous experiment went tragically wrong
• Rising from the Ashes | Becky Garrison
  Seabury Books | ISBN 978-1-59627-062-6
  Emerging church in relation to US mainline liturgical denominations, through interviews with leading practitioners and thinkers

Resources

• Alternative Worship | Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05396-0
  New worship material, from many of alt.worship's most creative groups and individuals. Includes multimedia resources on CD-ROM, and background essays to give context.
• Alternative Worship | Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown
  Baker | ISBN 0-8010-9170-5
  US edition with new foreword by Sally Morgenthaler
• Cave Refectory Road | Ian Adams
  Canterbury Press | ISBN 978-1-84825-028-4
  Monastic rhythms for contemporary living
• Multi-Sensory Church | Sue Wallace
  Scripture Union | ISBN 1-85999-667-1
  Ready-to-use ideas for creative worship using, art, liturgies, rituals
• Multi-Sensory Prayer | Sue Wallace
  Scripture Union | ISBN 1-85999-465-2
  Creative prayer ideas using, art, the body, the senses
• Pocket liturgies | Various authors
  Proost www.proost.co.uk
  Collections of liturgies from emerging churches
• The Prodigal Project | Mike Riddell, Mark Pierson, Cathy Kirkpatrick
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05250-6
  The theory and practice of Alternative Worship, from its most famous Australasian practitioners. Includes case studies and multimedia CD-ROM
• Sacred Space | Dan Kimball & Lilly Lewin
  Youth Specialties | ISBN 978-0-310-27111-6
  A guide to creating multisensory worship experiences for youth ministry. Includes CD-ROM
• Soul Shaper | Tony Jones
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25101-X
  Exploring spirituality & contemplative practices in youth ministry
• Tune In Chill Out | Jenny Baker & Moya Ratnayake
  Christian Education Publications | ISBN 1-904024-60-2
  Using contemplative prayer in youthwork. Includes multimedia CD-ROM.

Books about the wider context

• Ancient Future Faith | Robert Webber
  Baker | ISBN 0-8010-6029-X
  Rethinking evangelicalism for a postmodern world
• Aqua Church | Leonard Sweet
  Group | ISBN 0-7644-2151-4
  Transforming church for a postmodern world
• Christi-Anarchy | Dave Andrews
  Lion | ISBN 0-7459-4234-2
  Recovering the vision of Jesus from the ruins of Christendom
• A Churchless Faith | Alan Jamieson
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05465-7
  Why Christians leave churches while continuing in the faith
• The Complex Christ | Kester Brewin
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05669-2
  Signs of emergence in the urban church
• The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why | Phyllis Tickle
  Baker | ISBN 978-0801013133
  How the Church is going through a once-in-500-years transition
• Jesus in Disneyland | David Lyon
  Polity | ISBN 0-7456-1489-2
  Religion in postmodernity
• Liquid Church | Pete Ward
  Hendrickson [Paternoster for UK] | ISBN 1-84227-161-X
  New patterns of church in postmodern consumer culture
• Making Sense of Church | Spencer Burke with Colleen Pepper
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25499-X
  Emerging church conversations from TheOoze.com
• Mass Culture | Jonny Baker and Mike Riddell Pete Ward et al
  Bible Reading Fellowship | ISBN 1-84101-069-3
  New approaches to Holy Communion - chapters by Alternative Worship practitioners
• The McDonaldisation of the Church | John Drane
  Darton Longman & Todd | ISBN 0-232-52259-6
  Why the Church doesn't reach large parts of our society
• Mission Implausible | Duncan McLaren
  Paternoster Press | ISBN 1-8422.7295-0
  Analysis of the crisis of credibility of the Church in Europe
• Mission-Shaped Church
  Church House Publishing | ISBN 0-7151-4013-2
  Church planting and fresh expressions of church in a changing context
• A New Kind of Christian | Brian McLaren
  Jossey-Bass | ISBN 0-7879-5599-X
  A tale of two friends on a spiritual journey
• The Post-Evangelical | Dave Tomlinson
  Triangle | ISBN 0-281-04814-2
  Why many Christians are rejecting Evangelicalism as previously understood
• The Post-Evangelical | Dave Tomlinson
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25385-3
  Revised US edition
• The Post-Evangelical Debate | Graham Cray et al
  Triangle | ISBN 0-281-05108-9
  Responses by UK theologians to The Post-Evangelical
• Postmodern Youth Ministry | Tony Jones
  Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-23817-X
  Exploring postmodernity in the context of Christian youth ministry
• The Shaping Of Things To Come | Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch
  Hendrickson ISBN 1-56563-659-7 [USA] Strand ISBN 1-8768-2587-1 [Australia]
  Innovation & mission for the 21st century Church
• Threshold of the Future | Michael Riddell
  SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05055-4
  Why the Western Church is in crisis, and what might be done
• Virtual Faith | Tom Beaudoin
  Jossey-Bass | ISBN 0-7879-3882-3
  The spirituality of Generation X