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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... example , among African groups the ges- ture of helping someone implicates the hand : " giving a helping hand " ( inye aka , Igbo ) . Similarly , to be involved in a case either for good or for evil is " to have one's hand in it ” ( aka ...
... example , and , therefore , we were born neither vicious nor virtu- ous but have the capacity for either though provided with neither , Augustine reacted in disbelief . In his interpretation of the Pauline Adamic midrash ( Rom 5:12 ) ...
... example , they put on masks ( thereby breaking the boundary between the living and the dead ) , practiced juggling and performed dances that were lewd or declared obscene . Dances in the church and cemeteries that were put into pastoral ...
... example , mmadu ( the human per- son ) is a plurality of relationships . In the myth of human incar- nation , 22 the body ( ahu ) of a newborn is related to the action of intercourse of the parents . The characteristics or ...
... example , the female soul of a man dwells in the body but is also located in the female waters of the fam- ily , which is under the protection of Nommo ( the god - of - the - sea ) . The totemic sanctuary and the taboo clan animal are ...
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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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