Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives Only One is Holy

The liturgical movement has reached a new and novel turn in its development. It was begun to wrestle with what has not yet been engaged—issuing a call to expand itself into other connections and possibilities. With Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives, Cláudio Carvalhaes continues this turn. The volume brings together Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars from different fields and locations in order to expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/de-colonial thinking. Connecting main themes from both fields, Carvalhaes shows what is at stake in this dialectical scholarship. This volume opens up the liturgical field into new territories, risky thinking, and previously unseen dialectical and dialogical connections.

Cláudio Carvalhaes, formerly a shoe-shining boy in Brazil, is a theologian, liturgist, and artist. Formerly Associate Professor of Liturgy and Worship at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, USA, he now teaches at McCormick Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality (2013).

Introduction; Cláudio Carvalhaes
PART I: MUSLIM AND JEWISH PERSPECTIVES
1. Returning to the One: Postcolonial Muslim Liturgy; Sophia R. Shafi
2. Toward a Genuine Congregation: The Form of the Muslim Friday Prayer, Revisited; Shadaab Rahemtulla
3. After the Holocaust and Israel. On Liturgy and the Postcolonial (Jewish) Prophetic in the New Diaspora; Marc H. Ellis
PART II: AFRICA AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
4. The Ethical Implications of Migration on Liturgy: An African Postcolonial Perspective; Beatrice Okyere–Manu
5. 'Do This in Remembrance of Me:' An African Feminist Contestation of the Embodied Sacred Liturgical Space In The Celebration Of Eucharist; Lilian Siwila
6. Liturgy and Justice in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Holy people, Holy places, Holy things in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ); Moyo Herbert
7. Navigating In Different Seas: Christianity and African Brazilian Religions; Miriam Rosa
PART III: LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
8. De–Evangelization of the Knees: Epistemology, Osteoporosis and Affliction; Nancy Cardoso Pereira
9. ¡Ponte A Nuestro Lado! Be on Our Side! The Challenge of the Central American Liberation Theology Masses; Ann Hidalgo
10. Choosing a Heritage. Some Urban South American Mennonites Reread, Reinvent, and Honor the Tradition; Marisa Strizzi
11. Liturgy With Your Feet: Romaria da Terra Pilgrimage in Paraná, Brazil: Re–Appropriating Liturgical Rites In The Quest For Life Spaces And Their Liberation; Júlio Cézar Adam
PART IV: OCEANIA, ASIA, AND ASIAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
12. A New Zealand Prayer Book = He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa: A Study in Post–colonial Liturgy; Storm Swain
13. Liturgical Time and Tehching Hsieh; Gerald Liu
14. Postcolonial Reading of Liturgy in India During The Colonial/Postcolonial Period As A Mode of Resistance; C. I. David Joy
15. Baptism as Crossing Beyond Belonging?; HyeRan Kim–Cragg
PART V: EUROPE, EUROPEAN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN AND USA PERSPECTIVES
16. A Flagging Peace?; Siobhan Garrigan
17. Holy Crumbs, Table Habits And (Dis)placing Conversations—Beyond 'Only One Is Holy,'; Michael N. Jagessar
18. Puzzling Over Postcolonial Liturgical Heteroglossia: In Search of Liturgical Decoloniality And Dialogic Orthodoxy; Kristine Suna–Koro
19. When Seminaries Get Stuck; Stephen Burns
20. The Cherokee Stomp Dance: A Case Study of Post–Colonial Native American Contextualization; Corky Alexander
21. Postcolonial Whiteness: Being–With In Worship; Sharon Fennema
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