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Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices

Author : Becca Whitla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030526368

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Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices by Becca Whitla Pdf

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology. Through a series of interwoven theoretical lenses and methodological tools—including coloniality, mimicry, epistemic disobedience, hybridity, border thinking, and ethnomusicology—the author examines and interrogates a range of factors in the musical sphere. From beloved Victorian hymns to infectious Latin American coritos; congregational singing to radical union choirs; Christian complicity in coloniality to Indigenous ways of knowing, the dynamic praxis-based stance of the book is rooted in the author’s lived experiences and commitments and engages with detailed examples from sacred music and both liturgical and practical theology. Drawing on what she calls a syncopated liberating praxis, the author affirms the intercultural promise of communities of faith as a locus theologicus and a place for the in-breaking of the Holy Spirit.

Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives

Author : C. Carvalhaes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137508270

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Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives by C. Carvalhaes Pdf

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both fields, this book shows what is at stake in this dialectical scholarship.

Unsettling Worship

Author : Sarah Travis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666746617

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Unsettling Worship by Sarah Travis Pdf

Settler churches across North America have committed to the work of conciliation and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Worship is a space in which these commitments are expressed and nurtured. As we are embraced by God’s reconciling love in worship, we are equipped to carry that reconciling love into our relationships beyond the worship space. Worship equips us for the work of conciliation, but the liturgy itself needs to be decolonized if it is to truly honor Christian commitments to God and neighbor. This book explores the reformed liturgy in its pattern of Gathering, Word, Table, and Sending, searching it both for colonial vestiges, and spaces of new possibility. Unsettling Worship invites the reader into a conversation about reformed worship in a setting of ongoing colonization. Worship should both unsettle us, and equip us for the essential work of making things right with Indigenous neighbors.

Hymns and Constructions of Race

Author : Erin Johnson-Williams,Philip Burnett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003838487

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Hymns and Constructions of Race by Erin Johnson-Williams,Philip Burnett Pdf

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race. It brings together diverse perspectives from musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, anthropology, performance studies, history, and postcolonial scholarship to show how the hymn has perpetuated, generated, and challenged racial identities. The global range of contributors cover a variety of historical and geographical contexts, with case studies from China and Brazil to Suriname and South Africa. They explore the hymn as a product of imperialism and settler colonialism and as a vehicle for sonic oppression and/or resistance, within and beyond congregational settings. The volume contends that the lived tradition of hymn-singing, with its connections to centuries of global Christian mission, is a particularly apt lens for examining both local and global negotiations of race, power, and identity. It will be relevant for scholars interested in religion, music, race, and postcolonialism.

From the Shores of Silence

Author : Ashley Cocksworth,Rachel Starr,Stephen Burns
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334060963

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From the Shores of Silence by Ashley Cocksworth,Rachel Starr,Stephen Burns Pdf

Feminist practical theology has emerged in the gap between wider feminist and wider practical theology. It celebrates distinctive concerns, arguments, emphases, and questions – unafraid to re-form practical theology in shape and substance, and to guide feminist theology towards the silences and stories of human lives that some professional theologies (including those shaped by feminist commitments) sometimes overlooks. Feminist practical theology is bold in exploration of doctrinal themes in poetic and prayerful modes, characteristically collaborative and in search of alliances with other advocacy perspectives. In the UK, such commitments have been exemplified by Nicola Slee, whom this volume honours. Chapters invite readers into wide ranging conversations that flow from young women’s experiences at university, poetic practice as theology, queer priesthood, theologies of critical masculinities, women presiding in worship, Black and decolonial theologies adjacent to feminist convictions, confrontations with sexual violence, rest and rewilding, and a post-menopausal Mary. Contributors are: Al Barrett, Gavin D’Costa, Deborah Kahn-Harris, Michael N. Jagessar, Sharon Jagger, Rachel Mann, Jenny Morgans, Eleanor Nesbitt, Karen O’Donnell, Mark Pryce, Anthony G. Reddie, Ruth Shelton and Alison Wooley.

Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis

Author : Robert Beckford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781350081758

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Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis by Robert Beckford Pdf

Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs? In this book, Robert Beckford shows how the Black British contemporary gospel music tradition is in crisis because its songs continue to be informed by colonial Christian ideas about God. Beckford explores the failure of both African and African Caribbean heritage Churches to Decolonise their faith, especially the doctrine of God, biblical interpretation and Black ontology. This predicament has left song leaders, musicians and songwriters with a reservoir of ideas that aim to disavow engagement with the social-historical world, black Biblical interpretation and the necessity of loving blackness. This book is decolonisation through praxis. Reflecting on the conceptual social justice album 'The Jamaican Bible Remix' (2017) as a communicative resource, Beckford shows how to develop production tools to inscribe decolonial theological thought onto Black British music(s). The outcome of this process is the creation of a decolonial contemporary gospel music genre. The impact of the album is demonstrated through case studies in national and international contexts.

Religion and Intersex

Author : Stephanie A. Budwey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671043

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Religion and Intersex by Stephanie A. Budwey Pdf

This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either ‘female’ or ‘male.’ Centered in interviews conducted with German intersex Christians, this book argues that moving from a paradigm of sexual dimorphism to sexual polymorphism will help promote the full humanity and flourishing of intersex people by creating a world where intersex individuals are no longer coerced and/or forced to undergo non-consensual, medically unnecessary treatment, no longer experience human rights violations because of their lack of legal protection, no longer feel inhuman and Other due to epistemic injustice that stems from socio-cultural norms and stereotypes, are no longer told they are not made in God’s image as a result of a sexually dimorphic understanding of Genesis 1:27, and no longer feel excluded and invisible in worship services that do not recognize them. This combination of the practical and the spiritual allows for a reconsideration of the medical treatment and pastoral care that should be available to intersex people. This book will be helpful to those in the disciplines of science, law, culture, and theology, particularly those in gender and theological studies and those already in and studying for lay and ordained ministry.

Lively Oracles of God

Author : Gordon Jeanes,Bridget Nichols
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814667224

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Lively Oracles of God by Gordon Jeanes,Bridget Nichols Pdf

This book reexamines what we often take for granted: how Scripture is presented to worshipers; how it is heard, especially by those with little experience of the life of the church; Scripture’s role in mediating the great narratives of incarnation and redemption at the high points of the year; where Scripture meets people in ritual transition; how the Bible itself provides the language of much public prayer. Contributors also consider how the relationship between Scripture and liturgy is tested by new priorities—the climate crisis, the inclusion and protection of children, the recognition and honoring of those who find themselves on the margins of the church, and the significance of gender and identity in all areas of the church’s life. This book does not offer definitive statements. It is an invitation to a wide audience to engage in new conversations with their practice of worship.

Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

Author : Rachel Bryant Davies,Erin Johnson-Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350200357

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Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive by Rachel Bryant Davies,Erin Johnson-Williams Pdf

Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? This landmark collection of essays will broach critical and topical questions about how the complex discourses of power involved in constructions of the nineteenth-century archive have impacted, and continue to impact, constructions of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academic confines. The essays, written from a range of disciplinary perspectives, grapple with urgent problems of how to deal with potentially sensitive nineteenth-century archival items, both within academic scholarship and in present-day public-facing institutions, which often reflect erotic, colonial and imperial, racist, sexist, violent, or elitist ideologies. Each contribution grapples with these questions from a range of perspectives: Musicology, Classics, English, History, Visual Culture, and Museums and Archives. The result is far-reaching historical excavation of archival experiences.

T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality

Author : Martha Moore-Keish,James Farwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567687678

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T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality by Martha Moore-Keish,James Farwell Pdf

Introducing readers to the contemporary field of sacramental theology, this volume covers the biblical and historical foundations, a survey of the state of the discipline, and a collection of constructive essays representing major themes, practices and approaches to sacraments and sacramentality in the contemporary world. The volume starts with a set of foundational essays that offer broad introduction to the field of sacramental theology from contemporary scholars, analysing a number of historical figures in order to illumine and inform contemporary sacramental theology. The second part of the volume is dedicated to a series of essays on sacramentality, and includes attention to elements of space, time, ritual action, music, and word, all as aspects of what Christians have termed “sacramental” reality. The third set of essays includes attention to each of the seven practices that have most commonly been termed “sacraments” in Christian traditions: baptism; eucharist/Lord's Supper; confirmation; confession, forgiveness and reconciliation; marriage; ordination; and anointing. The final part of this volume features scholars who are working on sacraments in conversation with contemporary academic disciplines: critical race theory, queer theory, comparative theology, and disability studies.

In Counterpoint

Author : Kristine Suna-Koro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647108

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In Counterpoint by Kristine Suna-Koro Pdf

What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther, Mayra Rivera, and John Chryssavgis, the author offers a postcolonial retrieval of sacramentality through a robust theological engagement with the postcolonial notions of hybridity, contrapuntality, planetarity, and Third Space. While exploring the methodological potential of diasporic imaginary in theology, this innovative book advances the notion of sacramental pluriverse and of Christ as its paradigmatic crescendo within the sacramental economy of creation and redemptive transformation. In the context of ecological degradation, In Counterpoint argues that it is vital for the postcolonial sacramental renewal to be rooted in ethics as a uniquely postcolonial fundamental theology.

Prekäres Wissen

Author : Kristin Merle,Manuel Stetter,Katharina Krause
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374076055

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Prekäres Wissen by Kristin Merle,Manuel Stetter,Katharina Krause Pdf

Welche kritischen Analysen christlich-religiöser Symbole und kirchlicher Praxis sind nötig, um kulturelle Stereotype und hegemoniale Vorstellungen freizulegen? Inwiefern lassen sich postkoloniale und dekolonialisierende, aber auch rekolonialisierende Praktiken im Kontext des Religiösen und der Kirchen identifizieren? Mit diesen Fragen befassen sich die in diesem Band vorliegenden Beiträge. Versammelt sind theoretische Überlegungen wie empirische und historische Fallstudien im Zusammenhang von Problemstellungen und Konzepten postkolonialer Theorien. Es zeigt sich: Wissen ist prekär. In den vielschichtigen Zusammenhängen seines Erwerbs wie seiner Organisation geht es immer um Praktiken der Legitimierung, Sanktionierung und Priorisierung und damit um die Gestaltung von Machtverhältnissen.

Christian Worship

Author : Michael N. Jagessar,Stephen Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545408

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Christian Worship by Michael N. Jagessar,Stephen Burns Pdf

Postcolonialism has greatly influenced biblical and theological criticism but has not yet entered the realm of church worship and practice. 'Christian Worship' brings the insights of postcolonial thinking to the rituals of religious life. The book critically analyses liturgical theology through the lens of postcolonialism and explores the challenges of appropriating postcolonial perspectives in Christian worship. Ranging from liturgical texts and song to Scripture, lectionaries, festivals and sacraments, this volume offers a fresh approach to liturgy that will be of interest to students of theology, seminarians and church practitioners.

Unraveling Religious Leadership

Author : Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506496542

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Unraveling Religious Leadership by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi Pdf

Unraveling Religious Leadership invites readers to reconsider foundational assumptions in Christian communities. Drawing upon decolonial frameworks and realities beyond white, eurowestern, modern ideals of who leaders are and what they do, this work pulls on the threads of colonialism and empire to create new possibilities for religious leaders.

Liberation against Entitlement

Author : Tim Noble
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666713060

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Liberation against Entitlement by Tim Noble Pdf

Christianity and politics cannot and should not be divided. But in times of deep social division, how do Christians make political choices that aim to build a society of justice and peace, where wholeness and unity reign? With special reference to two apparently very different contexts, Brazil and the Czech Republic, this book delves into this question, suggesting that behind a clash of political populisms, there is a deeper theological conflict. Grace, the action of God in the world, is understood by some as material reward for their giving, and thus as an entitlement to goods, financial rewards, or narrow national interests. For others, grace is a gift of God that always goes beyond any attempt to possess it and enables attention to the other, especially the other who is poor, excluded, and oppressed. What this means concretely is discussed through a close reading of Pope Francis’s Fratelli Tutti. Another world is possible, and this book sets out a vision of what it will look like.