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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... creation of more transition rituals beyond those existing in the Roman rite . In the last chapter ( chapter five ) we have samples of liturgies that are already emerging in the sub - Saharan African region . Experimentation in West ...
... 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 ...
... creation of the individual and so- ciety . Each social group has its pattern of experiencing and express- ing the flow of life - force or sound in the universe . At the same time each individual created in a unique way ( symbolized ...
... , " 34 ; C. Achebe , " Chi in Igbo Cosmology , " in his Morning Yet on Creation Day ( London : Heinemann , 1975 ) 93–103 ; O. B. Lawuyi , " Self - Potential as a Yoruba Ultimate : A Further Contribution to URAM Yoruba Studies ( 35.
... creation or emergence of social and religious rituals is a work of art . The repetition of these gestures projects a way of doing based on the memory of the past — the way it was controls the way it is . This highlights the conservative ...
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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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