Companion to the Africana Worship Book

Bys: Fosua, Safiyah and Davis, Valerie Bridgeman

Worship is when "God shows up and shows out!" African-American worship affirms that an active God embodies human lives through companionship and communion. This volume of essays, interlacing worship pieces with reflections from prominent leaders and emerging thinkers in Africana life, is designed to help churches, professors, and students reflect more deeply on worship and practice. Building a bridge of understanding through collective experiences, the Companion to the Africana Worship Book shows the roots and fruits of rich worship. The series of worship books includes The Africana Worship Book (Year A Volume 1) and The Africana Worship Book (Year B Volume 2). Essays and contributors in the Companion include: "21 Questions Revisited" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis "Go Play with God: Reclaiming Liturgy for Spiritual Formation" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis "Liturgy as Subversive Activity" by Safiyah Fosua "To Serve This Present Age" by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. "Africana Theology for the Black Church" by Safiyah Fosua "Worshipping Contextually: the Bassa People in the United Methodist Church in Liberia" by Pianapue Kept Early "Translatability as Belonging: Bassa United Methodist Christians in Liberia" by Pianapue Kept Early "The Creation of an Africana Worship Ritual: Baptism in the Shouters of Trinidad" by Gennifer Benjamin Brooks "The African-American Church and Sacraments: But Can We Still Get Our 'Circament?'" by William B. McClain "Death as Worship: Celebrating Dying as Part of Life" by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan "The African-American Funeral Sermon: Divine Re-Framing of Human Tragedy" by Frank A. Thomas "Music in Africana Worship" by Melinda Weekes "Doxology in Darkness" by Jessica Kendall Ingram "In the Spirit" by Lisa Allen "That Was Then, This Is NOW" by Otis Moss III "Emerging Possibilities for African-American Churches" by Douglas Powe "Technologies for Worship" by Elonda Clay "Lord, How Come We Here?" by William B. McClain "Spiritual Focus and Africana Worship" by Henry Mitchell "Worship: The Realm of the Spirit, the Realm of the Imagination, and Real Time" by Marilyn Thornton "Inclusive Language and Africana Worship" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis "Testify!" by Wilma Taylor "A Womanist Perspective on Spiritual Practices" by Linda Hollies

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881775339
• ISBN13: 9780881775334
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Discipleship Resources
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Worship for the New Church

Henry Mitchell, Jeremiah Wright, Otis Moss III, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Valerie Bridgeman Davis, Marilyn Thornton, Safiyan Fosua, and Linda Hollies are some of the contributors to this incredibly rich collection of essays that focus on worship within African-American and Caribbean churches. The essays span practices of worship, including, for example, the reading of scripture and the interpretation of it among the Bassa Christians in Liberia. The essay by Otis Moss III concerns new styles of worship, moving from traditional understandings of worship to a new dynamic for worship in the 21st century. This collection is appropriate for pastors and scholars, for those within African-American churches and for those who live outside it. Were more people to read works such as this one, the recent controversy concerning the preaching of Pastor Jeremiah Wright might be understood in a far different light than the coverage within the popular news outlets. I look forward to more of the thinking of the contributors and to other books in this series of resources.