Cultural Diversity In The Worshiping Community
This section explores the changing cultural context of North America and calls for a new sensitivity toward its emerging ethnic and cultural traditions. The white Anglo-Saxon domination of American culture will likely continue to be replaced by a cultural mosaic that includes Hispanic, African, and Asian cultural traditions. These developments will have significant consequences for the future of the church; already many worshiping communities have become multicultural. An understanding of the Asian, African, Hispanic, Caribbean, and Native American traditions of Christian worship will help the churches prepare for the changes that will take place.…
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Ethnic diversity and the aging of Western societies have dramatically changed the potential composition of the chur…
Cultural diversity has characterized the Judeo-Christian tradition from its earliest history. While the Bible and t…
How much worship gets directed beyond local or even individual needs? Does worship declare the congregation's conce…
The Cartigny Statement on Worship and Culture was prepared on October 1993 by the Lutheran World Federation's study…
With the increase in the number of Christians in other parts of the world other than the Northern (or Western) worl…
Although Christians have worshiped on the Caribbean Islands for many decades, patterns of worship that reflect loca…
The following article briefly describes a variety of worship practices on the Asian continent that have grown out o…
Hispanic worship can be divided into four main expressions: Catholic, evangelical Protestant, Pentecostal, and spir…
As in every worshiping tradition, music in Hispanic churches today represents a blend of the old and the new and of…
Worship on the continent of Africa has a rich history, dating back to the earliest period of the Christian church. …
Featuring vital and profound music and the energetic interchange of the spoken word, African-American worship is em…
Christian Native Americans bring to worship the riches of the Christian tradition, as well as a worldview shaped by…