Worship as Body Language: Introduction to Christian Worship : an African OrientationLiturgical Press, 1997 - 369 pàgines Worship sets an assembly in motion movement towards God in response to God's movement towards humans thus creating a resilient and caring community. Worship as Body Language brings the African community's experience of the body and its gestures together with the Christian liturgy, since worship and social action are closely related. The body language" or gestures of praise, adoration, contemplation, ritual dance, and care of the neighbor are meaningful to the ethnic group; African Christians tune into these body motions to express the one Christian faith. In Worship as Body Language, Father Uzukwu details how patterns of African ritual assemblies and sacred narratives have merged with Jewish, gospel, and early Church traditions to create living Christian communities and liturgies. Using a socio-historical method, this book sheds new light on liturgical action and theology, and suggests more transition rituals. It also provides samples of emergent African Christian liturgies that emphasize intense community participation with appropriate gestures. These local liturgies attest to the patristic principle that different customs actually confirm the unity of our faith in Christ. Scholars teaching and researching the foundations of the liturgy and liturgical inculturation, graduate students, and those organizing workshops on the regional, diocesan, or parish level will find Worship as Body Language a ready handbook on the liturgy. It is also a useful textbook for introducing college students and seminarians to the anthropological, historical, and theological dimensions of the liturgy. Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, CSSp, ThD, lectures in liturgy and African theology in seminaries and Catholic universities in Nigeria, Congo, Zaire, and France. He is the author of Liturgy: Truly Christian, Truly African, and the editor of Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology. " |
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... ( Igbo ) Myth of Origin and Its Reenactment of Igbo Life and Worship 92 Enuma Elish : Babylonian Exaltation of Marduk in Cosmos , Ritual , and History 110 Jewish Foundation Story ( Myth - Symbol ) as Creating and Re - Creating Israel 127 ...
... . I am also grateful to the mem- bers of the research committee on Igbo Mass ( Awka diocese of Nigeria ) for the three years of research ( 1983-1986 ) . We were not given permission to experiment on the Mass , but we vii Acknowledgments.
... Igbo and the sentiments that prevail in their ritual assemblies . The year I spent as associate pastor in Isienu ( Nsukka diocese , Nigeria , 1993 ) was a very fruitful year . My pastor and former student Christopher Mbogu has a lot of ...
... Igbo of Nigeria ) , the sacred history impacts on the political , social , and economic dimensions of life . Life in all its total- ity becomes ritualized ; it is lived under the eyes of God and spirits . The Mesopotamian sacred ...
... Igbo of Nigeria say , when a bird in motion tilts its wing , one knows where it is going to perch . Among humans , the gesture retains the characteristic of motion . It is the movement of the body ; a measured movement . The pattern of ...
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Foundation Stories MythSymbols | 84 |
Endnotes | 201 |
Passage Through Life and Its Ritual Hallowing | 220 |
The Inculturation of Sacramental Celebration of Christian Initiation | 229 |
Endnotes | 256 |
Emergent Creative Liturgies in Africa | 265 |
Endnotes | 317 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 347 |
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