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Author Haldeman, Scott (William Scott)

Title Towards liturgies that reconcile : race and ritual among African-American and European-American Protestants / Scott Haldeman
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 183 pages)
Series Liturgy, worship, and society
Liturgy, worship, and society.
Contents Liturgical theology in context -- "Once your were no people ... now you are God's people" : an analytical narrative of the construction of African-American Protestant liturgical traditions -- "Cities on hills" : an analytical narrative of the construction of European-American Protestant liturgical traditions -- Barriers built, barriers broken : the intersection of African-American and European-American liturgical traditions -- "Discerning the body" : US racism, Protestant worship and sacramental theology
Summary Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they have done so as slave and master, outsider and insider, oppressed and oppressor. Scott Haldeman traces the development of Protestant worship among whites and blacks, showing that the following exist in tension: African American and European American Protestant liturgical traditions are both interdependent and distinct; and that multicult
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index
Notes English
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Subject Liturgies -- United States
Worship.
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Cults.
worship.
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
Cults
Liturgies
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Worship
Liturgie
Protestantismus
Ethnische Beziehungen
Versöhnung
Liturgie.
Protestantse kerken.
Rassenverhoudingen.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754686576
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