Liturgical Inculturation: Sacramentals, Religiosity, and CatechesisPerhaps nothing is as important to the future of the Church as continuing to make the liturgy meaningful to those who celebrate it. Inculturation, the dynamic translation of the typical editions into the cultures of local Churches, is the key. Inculturation as a branch of liturgical study has a dauntingly wide scope. It covers the areas of history and theology, liturgical and cultural principles, process and methods, sacraments and sacramentals, Liturgy of the Hours, liturgical year, liturgical music, liturgical arts and furnishings, and such related topics as popular religiosity and catechesis. So where does the average pastor, liturgist, or student begin? With this volume the reader is introduced to the different technical terms expressing the relationship between liturgy and culture (indigenization, incarnation, contextualization, adaptation, acculturation ... ). The subsequent discussion on the question of sacramentals, popular religiosity, and liturgical catechesis explains how these disparate topics share the same basic concern of inculturation. Throughout the book the focus is on method. Method encompasses both how one may remain true to the liturgy while also considering what culture offers the liturgy or requires of it. The question of how creativity relates to inculturation is also answered. For the serious student of the liturgy, whether or not you serve a culturally diverse community, this work provides foundations, principles, and methods for creating a liturgy of the people and for the people. |
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... cultural pattern. She argued for a relativist notion of deviance. Using the example of homosexuality, she suggested that, although in Western cultures homosexuality was regarded as a perversion, in other cultures—for example, in ancient ...
... cultural pattern. Those do change, and change drastically. The people of one South Pacific island hold in highest ... Cultural patterns change; one of the things Heinlein “invented,” was the use of that fact. But to do so, it was ...
... cultural group in North American society . White Anglo - Saxon Protestant culture has been at the core of American cultural patterns ( Marger , 1997 ) . Some would argue that there is no distinct dominant white American cultural pattern ...
... cultural pattern based on a limited number of socially recognized categories of rela- tions defined in terms of generation difference , lineal and collateral difference , sex of relative , difference between relation by marriage and by ...
Dianna Stone, Eugene Stone-Romero. Western cultures are also high in this cultural pattern. This cultural pattern is found by examining data across cultures, and in such data this cultural pattern is the opposite of collectivism. Of ...
Contents
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The Method of Creative Assimilation | 44 |
Toward Liturgical Creativity | 51 |
The Conciliar Principles of Inculturation | 58 |
The Influence of Culture | 89 |
CHAPTER THREE | 95 |
Forms of Popular Religiosity | 102 |
Inculturation and the Traits of Popular Religiosity | 108 |
Popular Religiosity and the Methods of Inculturation | 120 |
Popular Religiosity and the Liturgical Texts | 126 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 134 |
Catechesis from a Liturgical Perspective | 137 |
The Theological Principles | 59 |
The Pastoral Principles | 67 |
The Rite of Funerals | 73 |
The Place of the Word of God | 83 |
Cultural Evocation in Patristic Catechesis | 153 |
Acculturation or Inculturation? | 166 |