How Children's Worship Changed the Church: Ritualism, Liturgy and Children in the Late Nineteenth Century...

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Catherine M. Haynes

How Children's Worship Changed the Church

Ritualism, Liturgy and Children in the Late Nineteenth Century Church of England

Catherine M. Haynes

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Routledge
18 November 2025

History of religion; Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England; Christian worship, rites & ceremonies; Age groups: children

Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies

This book charts nineteenth-century ceremonial and liturgical change through Ritualists’ involvement of children in Church of England services. It draws on previously unresearched records of how children participated in services and considers the way in which their influence as adults subsequently shaped Anglican liturgy, theology, and ecclesiology. Children were famously ‘seen and not heard’ and, as such, are often found below the radar of studies of Victorian Anglicanism. This volume sheds valuable light on the role that child choristers and ritualist children’s hymnody played in the rapid growth of choral music in parish churches and provides evidence of children’s influence on the early origins of the Parish Communion Movement. The book also examines the role which children’s guilds and catechism services played in nineteenth-century Church of England mission, and briefly reviews the legacy of Ritualists’ sacramental mission found in current eucharistic mission services in the Church in Wales. It will be of particular interest to scholars of church history, liturgy, ecclesiology, theology, and childhood.

By: Catherine M. Haynes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781041017561
ISBN 10: 1041017561
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 18 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Catherine M. Haynes is a tutor in worship and ministerial development at St Padarn’s Institute in Wales.