Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives : Only One Is Holy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Postcolonialism and Religions Series .
- Postcolonialism and Religions Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Liturgy and Postcolonialism: An Introduction -- Part I Muslim and Jewish Perspectives -- 1 Returning to the One: Postcolonial Muslim Liturgy -- 2 Toward a Genuine Congregation: The Form of the Muslim Friday Prayer, Revisited -- 3 After the Holocaust and Israel: On Liturgy and the Postcolonial (Jewish) Prophetic in the New Diaspora -- Part II African and African American Perspectives -- 4 The Ethical Implications of Migration on Liturgy: An African Postcolonial Perspective -- 5 "Do This in Remembrance of Me": An African Feminist Contestation of the Embodied Sacred Liturgical Space in the Celebration of Eucharist -- 6 Liturgy and Justice in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Holy People, Holy Places, Holy Things in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe -- 7 Navigating in Different Seas: Christianity and African Brazilian Religion* -- Part III Latin American Perspectives -- 8 De-Evangelization of the Knees: Epistemology, Osteoporosis, and Affliction* -- 9 ¡Ponte a nuestro lado! Be on our side! The Challenge of the Central American Liberation Theology Masses -- 10 Choosing a Heritage: Some Urban South American Mennonites Reread, Reinvent, and Honor the Tradition -- 11 Liturgy with Your Feet: The Romaria da Terra Pilgrimage in Paran? Brazil: Reappropriating Liturgical Rites in the Quest for Life Spaces and Their Liberation* -- Part IV Oceanian, Asian, and Asian American Perspectives -- 12 A New Zealand Prayer Book = He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa: A Study in Postcolonial Liturgy -- 13 Liturgical Time and Tehching Hsieh -- 14 A Postcolonial Reading of Liturgy in India during the Colonial/Postcolonial Period as a Mode of Resistance -- 15 Baptism as Crossing beyond Belonging? -- Part V European, European American, Native American, and United States Perspectives -- 16 A Flagging Peace?. 17 Holy Crumbs, Table Habits, and (Dis)placing Conversations-Beyond "Only One Is Holy" -- 18 Puzzling over Postcolonial Liturgical Heteroglossia: In Search of Liturgical Decoloniality and Dialogic Orthodoxy -- 19 When Seminaries Get Stuck -- 20 The Cherokee Stomp Dance: A Case Study of Postcolonial Native American Contextualization -- 21 Postcolonial Whiteness: Being-With in Worship -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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.