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Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices: Flipping the Song Bird

by Becca Whitla

  • Hardback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

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For worship leaders and theology students

Analyzes how songs can embody liberating theology

Empowers your congregation to sing with purpose

Discover how music and liturgy can become powerful tools for liberation and social transformation in the church.

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Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology. Through a series of interwoven theoretical lenses and methodological tools--including coloniality, mimicry, epistemic disobedience, hybridity, border thinking, and ethnomusicology--the author examines and interrogates a range of factors in the musical sphere. From beloved Victorian hymns to infectious Latin American coritos; congregational singing to radical union choirs; Christian complicity in coloniality to Indigenous ways of knowing, the dynamic praxis-based stance of the book is rooted in the author's lived experiences and commitments and engages with detailed examples from sacred music and both liturgical and practical theology. Drawing on what she calls a syncopated liberating praxis, the author affirms the intercultural promise of communities of faith as a locus theologicus and a place for the in-breaking of the Holy Spirit.
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Liberation, (de)coloniality, And Liturgical PracticesLiberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices: Flipping the Song Bird

  • Title

    Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices: Flipping the Song Bird

  • Author

    Becca Whitla

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Palgrave MacMillan

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    486g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9783030526351

  • ISBN-10

    3030526356

  • Eden Code

    5279014