{"product_id":"worship-as-body-language-introduction-to-christian-worship-an-african-orientation-9780814661512","title":"Worship as Body Language: Introduction to Christian Worship: An African Orientation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorship sets an assembly in motion movement towards God in response to Gods movement towards humans thus creating a resilient and caring community. Worship as Body Language brings the African communitys 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. \"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953251573813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814661513","price":28.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814661512.jpg?v=1788182958","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/worship-as-body-language-introduction-to-christian-worship-an-african-orientation-9780814661512","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}