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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... Sacred Narratives and Their Impact on the Life of the Community 91 The Nri ( Igbo ) Myth of Origin and Its Reenactment of Igbo Life and Worship 92 Enuma Elish : Babylonian Exaltation of Marduk in Cosmos , Ritual , and History 110 Jewish ...
... Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship over the " Zairean rite . " The challenges they faced , which were necessary in the dialogue between sister churches , were also a great help in my in- depth research into liturgical history . I am ...
... sacred narratives ( myths ) are described . Samples of sacred narratives are taken from the African , Meso- potamian , and Jewish - Christian traditions . In the African foundation narrative ( of the Igbo of Nigeria ) , the sacred ...
... sacred space.67 The priests were not carrying a prophetic message to change their ma- rauding countrymen and the Africans . Elmina ( Ghana ) , Whydah ( Benin Republic ) , Benin City , and Warri ( Nigeria ) were mainly for- eign trade ...
... sacred , God and spirits . Through signs and symbols , through gestures ( verbal and nonverbal ) , the community is displayed before the sacred , who is invited to see , ap- prove , complete , understand , or recognize the ritual action ...
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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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