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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... Spirit " and " Body " in Greco - Roman Gestures 6 African Body Attitudes and Gestures 10 Bodily Gestures and Inculturation of Christianity 14 Brief Survey of Liturgical Inculturation in the Western Church 16 The Experience of Liturgical ...
... spirit ) makes this gesture toward God and toward other humans . The principal argument of this book is that our ... spirits , have meaning within an ethnic group . Christian worship , as a human expression of the encounter with the ...
... spirits . The Mesopotamian sacred narrative is ritualized in the domain of politics . The sacred history or myth is narrated in full during the new year akitu festival . In the Jewish and Christian stories , which are given more space ...
... Spirit " and " Body " in Greco - Roman Gestures Greco - Roman antiquity ( especially the classical period ) projected the image of gestural behavior that prioritized the hand ( and the face ) . The science of rhetoric as expounded by ...
... spirit , a burden to the self , a prison for the soul . This displays the Western dualistic perception of humans in the world . In modern times this dualism has been made sharper by the Cartesian reduction of the human being to a ...
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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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