Introduction: Beyond "perspectives": faith and learning take practice -- Making the familiar strange: a phenomenology of cultural liturgies -- The end of Christian education: from worldview to worship (and back again) -- Elements of a theology of culture: pedagogy, liturgy, and the church -- Desiring, imaginative animals: we are what we love -- Homo liturgicus: the human person as lover -- From thinking things to liturgical animals -- From worldviews to social imaginaries -- From spheres to aims: liturgical institutions -- Love takes practice: liturgy, formation, and counter-formation -- Thick and thin practices: ritual forces of cultural formation -- Formation, misformation, and counter-formation: liturgies secular and Christian -- Lovers in a dangerous time: cultural exegesis of "secular" liturgies -- "Reading" culture through the lens of worship -- Consuming transcendence: worship at the mall -- Sacrificial violence: the "military-entertainment complex" -- Excursus: on patriotism -- Cathedrals of learning: liturgies of the university -- Apologetic excursus: the persisting witness of idolatry -- Desiring the kingdom: the practiced shape of the Christian life -- From worship to worldview: Christian worship and the formation of desire -- The primacy of worship to worldview -- The sacramental imagination: resisting naturalism and supernaturalism -- Excursus: the shape of Christian worship -- Practicing (for) the kingdom: an exegesis of the social imaginary -- Embedded in Christian worship -- Liturgical time: rhythms and cadences of hope -- Call to worship: an invitation to be human -- God's greeting and mutual greetings: hospitality, community, and graced dependence -- Song: hymning the language of the kingdom -- The law: order, norms, and freedom for the good -- Confession and assurance of pardon: brokenness, grace, hope -- Baptism: initiation into a royal priesthood, constitution of a new people -- The creed: situating belief -- Prayer: learning the language of the kingdom -- (cont'd)