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African-American Liturgical Traditions

Convener

J-Glenn Murray
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church
19 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-1425
202-336-7215
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Mission Statement

The mission of the African-American Liturgical Traditions Seminar is to explore the genius of African-American ritual practices as a contribution to the understanding of liturgy and as a paradigm of larger issues of inculturation in North America and throughout the world.

2010 Academy Meeting Agenda

TBA

2009 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. Discussion of Melva Costen’s new book
  2. Discussion of the final, published version of Mary McGann (ed.) Let It Shine!: The Emergence of African-American Catholic Worship (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008)
  3. Further discussion of J-Glenn Murray, SJ “‘Ole-Time Religion’: Examining the Values Expressed in Contemporary Black African-American Roman Catholic Sunday Eucharist”
  4. Singing and discussing the newly composed Responsorial Psalms of Rawn Harbor: “Praising God Through Psalm & Song”
  5. Discussion of the “African American Lectionary Project” of the African American Pulpit

2008 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. Reporting on what we have written, read, taught or otherwise discovered in 2007
  2. Recently and soon-to-be defended doctoral theses: Kathleen Dorsey Bellow, J-Glenn Murray, SJ, Joseph Donnella
  3. Melva Costen on recent publications and projects in progress
  4. The state of the field: areas in the study of African American worship traditions that remain neglected and strategies to ensure this work is pursued
  5. An update on our continuing bibliography project
  6. A conversation with this year's plenary speaker, Rev. Lotson, and other local scholars/pastors, on African American worship in the Savannah area, especially in communities rooted in Geechee traditions

Papers

A list of online papers developed by members from this seminar will appear here.