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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... Western Church 16 The Experience of Liturgical Inculturation in Africa 26 Endnotes 34 Chapter 2 : Ritual - Symbolic Action as Creating and Re - Creating Community 41 Describing Ritual Action 41 Religious Ritual Creates or Re - Creates ...
... West and the East 268 The Liturgies of Africa 270 Liturgical Creativity in the West African Region 272 Creativity in the Central African Region 293 Liturgical Creativity in the Eastern African Region 307 Endnotes 317 Summary and ...
... West , Central , and Eastern Africa are reviewed . While English and French - speaking West Africa have created new Christian initiation and life - crises rituals , Eastern and Central Africa have focused their attention on creating ...
... West Niger Igbo of Asaba ( Nigeria ) , young people keep their hands in their pockets when being scolded by elders . This re- strains them from hitting back when hit by an elder in the inter- change . The Akan of Ghana pull off their ...
... Western tradition , according to Schmitt , tended very much to be linked with the gesture of the hand an organ very prominent in rhetoric . Gestus in manibus est ( gesture is in the hands ) . The Carolingian writer Remigius of Auxerre ...
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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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