Includes bibliographical references

Formative religious practices in premodern European life /John Van Engen -- Religious formation in ancient Judaism / Robert Goldenberg -- Christian formation in the early church / Robert Louis Wilken -- Simplifying Augustine / John C. Cavadini -- Monastic formation and Christian practice : food in the desert / Blake Leyerle -- Faith formation in Byzantium / Stanley Samuel Harakas -- Community and education in premodern Judaism / Michael A. Signer -- Practice beyond the confines of the medieval parish / John Van Engen -- Orality, textuality, and revelation as modes of education and formation in Jewish mystical circles of the high Middle ages / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The thirteenth-century English parish / Joseph Goering -- The cult of the Virgin Mary and technologies of Christian formation in the later Middle ages / Anne L. Clark -- Luther and formation in faith / David C. Steinmetz -- Zwingli and Reformed practice / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Catechesis in Calvin's Geneva / Robert M. Kingdon -- Ritual and faith formation in early modern Catholic Europe / Philip M. Soergel -- Spiritual direction as Christian pedagogy / Lawrence S. Cunningham