We’re all “Bananas and Coconuts”: Congregational Song in the Global South
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Swee Hong Lim
Abstract
This essay presents the grassroots’ common practice of congregational music making seen through an embedded long-term participant-observer’s perspective. Through this approach, it argues for a realistic means of “closing the loop” in the goal of self-determination for Global South churches by proposing a thoughtful worship renewal process guided by an enlightened theological ethos that privileges local expressions.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Aufsatz handelt von der alltäglichen gemeindemusikalischen Praxis im Globalen Süden und stellt die Ergebnisse einer Langzeitbeobachtung als Participant Observer dar. Auf dieser Grundlage schlägt der Autor einen Prozess behutsamer Erneuerung von Gottesdienstpraxis für Kirchen des Globalen Südens vor. Von einem aufgeklärten theologischen Ethos geleitet, soll dieser Prozess örtliche religiöse Ausdrucksformen bevorzugen und der Selbstbestimmung der regionalen Kirchen dienen.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Research Articles
- A Theopoetics of Practice: Re-forming in Practical Theology
- Theopoetics as Response to Suffering: the Visual Art of Käthe Kollwitz in the Reformation of Practical Theodicy
- Poetic License
- Joining the Slow Pilgrimage in a Second Holy Week in Autumn: A Theopoetics from the Ars Moriendi.
- What’s the Buzz? Celebrity Worship and Fandom Experiences of Ted Neeley (Jesus Christ Superstar)
- Heimat im Offenen?
- Von Fall zu Fall
- International Report
- Practical Theology in Africa: Situation, Approaches, Framework and Agenda Proposition
- Research Report
- We’re all “Bananas and Coconuts”: Congregational Song in the Global South
- Book Reviews
- Tapiwa N. Mucherera and Emmanuel Y. Lartey (eds), Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts: Methodology, Context, and Issues – African Practical Theology, Vol. 1 (Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2017), 137pp, ISBN: 978-1-4982-2188-7.
- Emmanuel Katongole, Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2017, 294 pp., ISBN 9780802874244, $30.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Research Articles
- A Theopoetics of Practice: Re-forming in Practical Theology
- Theopoetics as Response to Suffering: the Visual Art of Käthe Kollwitz in the Reformation of Practical Theodicy
- Poetic License
- Joining the Slow Pilgrimage in a Second Holy Week in Autumn: A Theopoetics from the Ars Moriendi.
- What’s the Buzz? Celebrity Worship and Fandom Experiences of Ted Neeley (Jesus Christ Superstar)
- Heimat im Offenen?
- Von Fall zu Fall
- International Report
- Practical Theology in Africa: Situation, Approaches, Framework and Agenda Proposition
- Research Report
- We’re all “Bananas and Coconuts”: Congregational Song in the Global South
- Book Reviews
- Tapiwa N. Mucherera and Emmanuel Y. Lartey (eds), Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts: Methodology, Context, and Issues – African Practical Theology, Vol. 1 (Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2017), 137pp, ISBN: 978-1-4982-2188-7.
- Emmanuel Katongole, Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2017, 294 pp., ISBN 9780802874244, $30.
