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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... Creating and Re - Creating Community 41 Describing Ritual Action 41 Religious Ritual Creates or Re - Creates Community 43 Ritual Creativity and Certain Sociological Theories of Religion 44 Repetitive Character of Ritual , Change , and ...
... Creating and Re - Creating Israel 127 The Christian Foundation Story ( Myth - Symbol ) as Reenacted in Christian Life and Cult 174 Endnotes 201 Chapter 4 : Passage Through Life and Its Ritual Hallowing : Toward a Contextual Celebration ...
... creating or re - creating community . Through its ritual action the community expresses what touches it most ; by repeating the familiar ritual ges- tures it is mobilized to action in its world . In the native African con- text , any ...
... created new Christian initiation and life - crises rituals , Eastern and Central Africa have focused their attention on creating Eucharistic liturgies and liturgies for the consecration of virgins . These emergent local liturgies ...
... creation when God sent the chameleon to inspect the created earth . The earth was not yet firm ; consequently , the chameleon's motions display care . On the other hand , the hen ( and fowls in general ) has an almost reckless motion 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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