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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... participants in the dialogue recorded in this book . Many were enthusiastic about the historical and anthropological ap- proach to questions of the liturgy and the administration of the sacra- ments . Some expressed concern and ...
... other , which is also the ex- perience of the self , is in the rhythmic harmony of interaction . To objecting logical positivists Anyanwu replies that the dimension of sound or life - force , and human participation in 11.
... participation in it , is the way Africans handle ( or dance ) the ambivalence of life : " There is a rhythmic sharing of experience through music and dance , and dancing is a rhythmical order in the universe of Sound . All activities of ...
... participate in re - creating the continent , a task con- sonant with the Christian vocation to re - create the world . In this section we shall review inculturation by examining some of the gestures adopted within the Western liturgy ...
... participants express their being part of the group through the ritual gesture . Consequently , every ritual gesture is a symbolic action - rit- ual symbol . Indeed Turner , in his description of the symbol , connects it immediately with ...
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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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