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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... Emergent Creative Liturgies in Africa 265 The Emergence of Multiple Rites in the One Church of Christ 266 The Principal Liturgies of the West and the East 268 The Liturgies of Africa 270 Liturgical Creativity in the West African Region ...
... - 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 testify to the validity of the age - old patristic ...
... emergence of the Roman empire ( under Augustus ) and the birth of Christ as ordained by God to happen in the same period and to work in harmony , there is hardly any aspect of the Greco- Roman pattern of life that did not influence ...
... 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 or ...
... emergence of the human type is realized in the act of killing one of its own kind ( the weakest , the scapegoat ) . Humans are so dominated by violence that the ritual murder was necessary in order precisely to arrest the spiral 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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