Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives Only One is Holy

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both f

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Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives: Only One Is Holy Edited by Cláudio Carvalhaes Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark Jin Young Choi A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and Miriam Angeline M.G. Song

Liturgy in Postcolonial P er s pectives O n ly O n e Is Ho ly

Edited by

Cl áudio Ca r va l ha e s

LITURGY IN POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES

Copyright © Cláudio Carvalhaes, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-51635-0 The cover image is part of the work “Aesthetics of Abandonment, 2012–2014,” and it was photographed in the states of São Paulo and Maranhão, Brazil. All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN 978-1-349-70362-3 ISBN 978-1-137-50827-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-50827-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: June 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To Jaci C. Maraschin, a postcolonial Latin American/Brazilian liturgical theologian avant la lettre

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Contents

Acknowledgments

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Liturgy and Postcolonialism: An Introduction

1

Cláudio Carvalhaes

Part I Muslim and Jewish Perspectives 1

Returning to the One: Postcolonial Muslim Liturgy

23

Sophia Rose Arjana 2

Toward a Genuine Congregation: The Form of the Muslim Friday Prayer, Revisited

33

Shadaab Rahemtulla 3

After the Holocaust and Israel: On Liturgy and the Postcolonial (Jewish) Prophetic in the New Diaspora

45

Marc H. Ellis

Part II 4

African and African American Perspectives

The Ethical Implications of Migration on Liturgy: An African Postcolonial Perspective

71

Beatrice Okyere-Manu 5

6

“Do This in Remembrance of Me”: An African Feminist Contestation of the Embodied Sacred Liturgical Space in the Celebration of Eucharist Lilian Cheelo Siwila Liturgy and Justice in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Holy People, Holy Places, Holy Things in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe

83

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Herbert Moyo 7

Navigating in Different Seas: Christianity and African Brazilian Religion

Miriam Rosa

107

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Part III 8

Latin American Perspectives

De-Evangelization of the Knees: Epistemology, Osteoporosis, and Affliction

119

Nancy Cardoso Pereira 9

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