Contemporary voices from such figures as John Cage, George Steiner, Mircea Eliade, and Marshall McLuhan enter into this book about the total worship experience as it is revealed historically, comparatively, and in relation to secularized society today. Dr. Micks explores worship as a complex response to human experience which transcends time and space and enters into such realms as taste, touch, sound, and silence. From this survey there emerges a series of suggestions and specific proposals for the reform of worship which accommodate the best elements of historic worship, yet respond to the contemporary search for new life styles.