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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... individual may be an occasion to convoke a ritual assembly . In the Jewish and Christian tra- ditions the crucial foundational events ( Exodus and Cross - resurrection of Jesus ) dominate the ritual assembly . The impact ix Introduction.
... individual part of the body , especially the hand . Motus ( move- ment ) is a synonym of gestus , especially in the frequent expression motus corporis ( body movement ) . But motus has the wider meaning of any movement at all ( e.g. ...
... individual member of the group sets himself or herself in motion indiscriminately . To do so would amount to acting ... Individuals who belong to the " speech community " ( ethnic group ) 5 The Body as Primal Symbol.
... individual gestures into the commu- nity motions . During training and after profession , the novice is led to renounce individual body ( personal ) movement in order to as- sume the community movement ( Cassian ) .18 This elimination ...
... individuals ( history ) ; gesture ( gestus ) referred to the characteristic body movements or attitudes of a group ( like the Germans or the French , the clergy or the laity , Cistercians or Benedictines ) ; the moral judgment implied ...
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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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