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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... king ) , just as Moslems enter the mosque barefoot . A lay person in medieval Christendom , no matter how elevated in rank , bowed to a clergyman or displayed other ges- tures of respect whenever they met.5 The action and interaction ...
... kings , funerals , initiation rites , new year , and new yam festivals in the West African region.26 The drum and sound both generate and call for adequate gestures ( ritual , social , moral , etc. ) for the re - creation of the ...
... king . At full moon , the king emerges naked from his seclusion . Rites of reversal , which replicate the everyday speech acts , form part of the process : al- ternatively groups of subjects pity and lament for him ; taunt , vilify ...
... king / chief is a link with the ancestors of the group . Their initia- tion or enthronement becomes an occasion to reenact the foundation stories of the group , thereby renewing the basis of the existence of the group . Such initiations ...
... kings or during initiation ceremonies ) . In the Ancient Near East , according to Albrektson , di- vine intervention in history was a common phenomenon . What re- mains unparalleled in the experience of Israel is how the foundation ...
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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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