The Oxford guide to the Book of common prayer : a worldwide survey / Charles Hefling, Cynthia L. Shattuck, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. But one use: the birth of the classical prayer book -- Worship by the book / Kenneth Stevenson -- Cranmer and common prayer / Gordon Jeanes -- The prayer book 'noted' / Robin A. Leaver -- From Elizabeth I to Charles II / Bryan Spinks -- Early translations / J. Robert Wright -- The 'liturgy of comprehension' / Charles Hefling -- The shape of the classical book of common prayer / J. Neil Alexander -- The state services / Charles Hefling -- Part II. The social and cultural life of the prayer book -- The prayer book and the parish church: from the Elizabethan settlement to the Restoration / Judith Maltby -- The prayer book and the parish church: from the Restoration to the Oxford movement / Jeremy Gregory -- Prayer book architecture / James F. White -- Prayer books and printers / Martin W. Hutner -- The prayer book as 'sacred text' / Kenneth Stevenson -- The prayer book as literature / Paul G. Stanwood -- Part III. The prayer book outside England -- Plantations, missions, and colonies / William I. Sachs -- The prayer book in Anglican churches -- Scotland: Episcopalians and nonjurors / Charles Hefling -- The colonies and states of America / Marion J. Hatchett -- British North America and Canada / William R. Blott -- Southern Africa / Cynthia Botha -- Ireland / Brian Mayne -- The prayer book and other traditions -- John Wesley and the Methodists / Karen B. Westerfield Tucker -- King's Chapel and the Unitarians / Carl Scovel -- Churches in the continuing Anglican tradition / Lesley A. Northup -- The prayer book and Lutheranism / Philip H. Pfatteicher -- Part IV. From uniformity to family resemblance: prayer books in the twentieth century -- The winds of change / Colin Buchanan -- The prayer book 'crisis' in England / Bryan Spinks -- The legacy of the church of South India / Colin Buchanan -- The liturgical movement and its consequences / John F. Baldovin, S.J. -- Preserving the classical prayer books / Colin Buchanan --

Part V. Family portraits: prayer books today -- Inculturation and Anglican worship / Ian T. Douglas -- Rites and books in Africa -- Anglican liturgies in Eastern Africa / Esther Mombo -- The Anglican church of Kenya / Grant Lemarquand -- The church of Nigeria: the book of common prayer / David C. Okeke -- The church of Nigeria: occasional services / Emmanuel Ekpunobi -- Central African prayer books / Titus Presler -- The province of southern Africa / Michael Nuttall -- Other African provinces: Burundi, Rwanda, and Congo -- Rites and books in the Pacific -- The Anglican church of Australia / Charles Sherlock -- The Anglican church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia / Kenneth Booth -- From Te Rawiri to the New Zealand prayer book / Jenny Te Paa -- The church of Melanesia / Terry Brown -- The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea / Justus VanHouten, S.S.F. -- Hawaii -- Rites and books in the Americas -- The Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. / Lesley A. Northup -- Native American translations -- The Anglican Church of Canada / John W.B. Hill -- Indigenous Canadian translations -- The province of the West Indies / Charles Hefling -- The book of common prayer in Spanish / Juan M.C. Oliver -- Rites and books in Asia -- The Episcopal Church in the Philippines / Tomas S. Maddela -- Japan: Nippon Sei Ko Kai / John M. Yoshida -- The Chinese prayer book / Sze-kar Wan -- The Anglican Church of Korea / Nak-hyon Joseph Joo -- The province of Myanmar (Burma) / Katherine E. Babson -- The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East -- Rites and books in Europe -- The Church of England: common worship / Trevor Lloyd -- The Scottish Episcopal Church / Gianfranco Tellini -- The church in Wales / Robert Paterson -- The Church of Ireland / Harold Miller -- Anglican churches in Europe / Jeffery Rowthorn -- Part VI. Worship in the prayer book family -- Anglicans and liturgical revision / Richard Geoffrey Leggett -- The daily office / John Gibaut -- The Eucharist / Ronald Dowling -- Sanctifying time: the calendar / Leonel L. Mitchell -- Rites of initiation / Ruth A. Meyers -- Catechisms / James F. Turrell -- Marriage / Gillian Varcoe -- Funeral rites / Trevor Lloyd -- Anglican ordinals / Richard Geoffrey Leggett -- Part VII. The future book of common prayer -- The book of common prayer and technology / Donald Kraus -- The prayer book in cyberspace / Clayton L. Morris -- The future of common prayer / Pierre W. Whalon.