It\'s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith.
Approximately 100 People from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating.
Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019.
It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe.
This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the World today.
It\'s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith.
What we have here is an immensely rich and varied collection of liturgical sources from various communities dealing with issues of violence, immigration/refugees, drugs, land grabbing, war on the poor, attack on women, militarization, climate change, and so on.
After some time, they wrote prayers and stories of their experience trying to live the Christian faith in utterly abandoned places.
The People in each location were poor, living in very challenging communities, living in oppressive and seemingly hopeless situations.
The author, other scholars, pastors, artists, activists and students all came from radically different ethnicities, races, sexualities, churches and Christian theologies.
The author and others spent weeks living in each of four communities for several weeks/months, getting to know the people, and then facilitating the people\'s own creation of prayers and liturgies.
The project was called Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire.
Approximately 100 People from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating to create indigenous prayers and Liturgies expressing their own contexts, for sharing with their communities and the rest of the world.
Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019.
It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe.
This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the World today.
It\'s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith
