community emergence liturgical african-american

books:

Exploring Music as Worship and Theology: An Interdisciplinary Method for Studying Liturgical Practice ...

2 reviews
Mary E. McGann

Liturgical Press, 2002

New insights and wisdom on Christian faith
The latest entry into the outstanding Liturgical Press "American Essays in Liturgy" series, Exploring Music As Worship And Theology: Research In Liturgical Practice by Mary E. McGann offers the reader a seminal essay written especially for liturgical scholars and pastoral leaders. Exploring Music As Worship And Theology is focused on the concept and importance of the music emerging from Christian ...

A Precious Fountain: Music in the Worship of an African-American Catholic Community (Virgil Michel series)
Mary E. McGann

Liturgical Press, 2004

A Precious Fountain is a work of liturgical ethnography that probes the rich liturgical life of one worshiping community whose roots and practices are at once Black and Catholic, using music as a primary lens through which to explore the community's liturgy and embodied theology. Our Lady of Lourdes community in San Francisco is part of a larger event in the American church: the emergence of a new paradigm of Catholic worship, one that is ...

Let it Shine!: The Emergence of African-American Catholic Worship
Mary E. McGann R.S.C.J.

Fordham University Press, 2008

Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and self-understanding over the last several decades by examining one critical dimension: the forging of new expressions of Catholic worship rooted in the larger Catholic ...