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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... living en- ergy , life - force , or “ life - ing ” by Africans.3 They assimilate bodily the impact that this universe makes on them , and they display , bodily , adequate responses . This adequate corporeal response is a designed and ...
... 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 use by the mendi- cant orders were also suspect and were condemned by ...
... living el- ders , noncorporeal spirits , or even malignant spirits ( ogbanje , spoiler - spirits ) . Then the spiritual self or soul ( mmuo ) is related to a fundamental prenatal choice made in conjunction with a personal creative 10 ...
... living . NOTES 1. For toolmaking and beginnings of African culture see J. D. Clark , ed . , Cambridge History of Africa , vol . I : From the Earliest Times to c . 500 B.C. ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1982 ) ; see also ...
... Living cultural elements become suspect . There is a preference for a fixed ancestral past as interpreted by the ruling ritual elite . Ritual practice becomes esoteric , and the re- ligious gathering turns into a spectacle where the ...
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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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