ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction: Context, Conversation, Critique
part |22 pages
Postcolonial Optics
chapter 1|20 pages
On Opting for an Optic
part |35 pages
The Mixed Media of Liturgy
chapter 2|18 pages
Liturgical Texts and Symbolic Contexts
chapter 3|15 pages
Embodying Theology in Song
part |19 pages
The Word in Liturgical Contexts
chapter 4|17 pages
Contrapuntal Reading: Scripture, Lectionaries and Alternative Dynamics
part |50 pages
Time, Space and Persons