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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... culture ) , 1 anthropologists should pay close attention to the personal struggle of the species to create meaning through body movement . Men and women made their first tools from their very bodies , i.e. , through gestures.2 The human ...
... cultural attitude among many others . The inculturation of Christianity in the West popularized this cul- tural type and deeply influenced further developments of the atti- tude to the body and gestures . More than the influence of ...
... culture that were reprobated were gradu- ally being tolerated . Liturgical dramas and celebrations came to be influenced by gestures of jugglers to which they were compared . This resulted in the expansion of Christian ritual gestures ...
... cultural contacts between the two traditions ( formal and informal acculturation ) . We noted the dualistic tendency of the ... culture . We also indicated the holistic and dialectical experi- ence of the self among black Africans . The ...
... culture area to another . Birdwhistell pointed out that in the field of kinesics , after fifteen years of research , he and his associates have not found any body motion or gesture that has the same social meaning in all societies.32 A ...
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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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