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 Languagea 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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... memory of the past — the way it was controls the way it is . This highlights the conservative or preservative dimension of rit- ual . The creativity also indicates the way it ought to be . This embraces the normative , dynamic , or ...
... memory of past tradition . Durkheim , who has greatly influenced the study of religious be- havior , ended up identifying the religious with the social . He cor- rectly pointed out that religion is about society and that religious ...
... memory of the past ) . But the present needs are the preoccupation ; they are ritually resolved by recalling a past pattern adapted to these needs in order to shape the future . In this way the actions drawn from the past are not ...
... memory of ancestral gestures , rituals provoked by the problems of this present time use symbols drawn from this pass- ing world to respond to the problems of life . In this way ritual action is not insulated from the real human world ...
... memory of the ancestors with whom the living keep daily communion through prayers and li- bations . For the land of the living and that of the ancestors , though different , are warmly linked . JEWISH - CHRISTIAN RITUAL AND THE ORIGIN ...
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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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