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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... Passage Through Life and Its Ritual Hallowing : Toward a Contextual Celebration of the Christian Sacraments 220 The Nature of Ritual Time 222 The Difference Between Ritual Time and Ordinary Time 223 The Inculturation of Sacramental ...
... passage and life - crises rituals and their impact on human societies . The focus is on those rites of passage that are initiatory . First of all , the pool of African experience of patterns of initiation is ready - to - hand to ...
... passages , short responses accompanied by instrumentation , tapping , swaying / danc- ing , and other adequate gestures recommend this pattern of prayer as having the possibility of merging the biblical faith and contextual ( modern ) ...
... passages from childhood through adolescence to adulthood and old age . Any event of life - success or failure , health or sickness , arrival or departure — is marked by ritual . Instead of this practice diminishing with cross - cultural ...
... passages from Deuteronomy to show this ritual interest : " And the LORD gave me the two stone tablets written with the fin- ger of God ; on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken to you at the mountain out of the fire on 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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