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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... Hands as the Human Rational Tool 3 The Gesture Establishes Group Identity 4 The Body as Primal Symbol 5 " Spirit " and " Body " in Greco - Roman Gestures 6 African Body Attitudes and Gestures 10 Bodily Gestures and Inculturation of ...
... hand to influence a contextual celebration of Christian ini- tiation . Second , the array of such passage rites in Africa calls for the creation of more transition rituals beyond those existing in the Roman rite . In the last chapter ...
... hand , the hen ( and fowls in general ) has an almost reckless motion of scattering earth when scavenging for food . This is a gesture bestowed on the hen when it was sent down to the earth by Oduduwa or Obatala ( the Yoruba creator ...
... hands . On the other hand , among the West Niger Igbo of Asaba ( Nigeria ) , young people keep their hands in their pockets when being scolded by elders . This re- strains them from hitting back when hit by an elder in the inter- change ...
... hands to humans are the root of human rationality . Aquinas calls the hand the " tool of tools " ( or- ganum organorum ) . He believes that the hand is directly linked to erectness , to language , and to the privilege of reason . It ...
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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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