Eucharist and globalization : redrawing the borders of eucharistic hospitality /
Carvalhaes, Cláudio.
Eucharist and globalization : redrawing the borders of eucharistic hospitality / Cláudio Carvalhaes. - x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index.
Introduction -- Borders, globalization, and eucharistic hospitality -- Eucharist and hospitality and the early Christian meals -- Reformed Eucharist and hospitality -- Feminist liturgies, borders, and hospitality -- Latin American hospitality and sacraments -- Christians and Yorubá people eating together: Eucharist and food offerings -- Performing hospitable eucharistic borderless borders -- Conclusion: onkotô?
The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events. Often called Eucharist, Lord's Supper, or Communion, this sacrament is about the presence of Christ transforming not only those who participate in it but also the world. In this book, the author engages this Christian liturgical act with movements of people around our globalized world and checks the sacramental borders of hospitality, the author calls our attention to the sacramental practices of Reformed churches and, form this liturgical practice, challenges Christian churches to expand the borders of hospitality. Engaging several critical lenses around the notion of the sacrament -- namely, Greco-Roman meals, Calvin's theology, and feminist and Latin American theologies -- the author challenges theological and liturgical understandings of the Eucharist. He fosters an interreligious dialogue around the table (Christians and Candomblé people, an African Religion in Brazil) and ends up using ritual theory to expand the circles of traditions, vocabularies, and practices around the sacrament. Proposing a borderless border eucharist hospitality, the author encourages readers to ask who and where we are when we get together to eat and drink, and how this liturgical act around Jesus' table/meal can transform the lives of the poor, our communities, societies, and the world.
9781610973465 1610973461
Lord's Supper.
Close and open communion.
Hospitality--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Globalization--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BV825.3 / .C37 2013
234/.163
Eucharist and globalization : redrawing the borders of eucharistic hospitality / Cláudio Carvalhaes. - x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index.
Introduction -- Borders, globalization, and eucharistic hospitality -- Eucharist and hospitality and the early Christian meals -- Reformed Eucharist and hospitality -- Feminist liturgies, borders, and hospitality -- Latin American hospitality and sacraments -- Christians and Yorubá people eating together: Eucharist and food offerings -- Performing hospitable eucharistic borderless borders -- Conclusion: onkotô?
The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events. Often called Eucharist, Lord's Supper, or Communion, this sacrament is about the presence of Christ transforming not only those who participate in it but also the world. In this book, the author engages this Christian liturgical act with movements of people around our globalized world and checks the sacramental borders of hospitality, the author calls our attention to the sacramental practices of Reformed churches and, form this liturgical practice, challenges Christian churches to expand the borders of hospitality. Engaging several critical lenses around the notion of the sacrament -- namely, Greco-Roman meals, Calvin's theology, and feminist and Latin American theologies -- the author challenges theological and liturgical understandings of the Eucharist. He fosters an interreligious dialogue around the table (Christians and Candomblé people, an African Religion in Brazil) and ends up using ritual theory to expand the circles of traditions, vocabularies, and practices around the sacrament. Proposing a borderless border eucharist hospitality, the author encourages readers to ask who and where we are when we get together to eat and drink, and how this liturgical act around Jesus' table/meal can transform the lives of the poor, our communities, societies, and the world.
9781610973465 1610973461
Lord's Supper.
Close and open communion.
Hospitality--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Globalization--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BV825.3 / .C37 2013
234/.163