Kingdom Play? Striving against Racisms through Worship in a Postcolonial Mode

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Robert Hovda, “The Vesting of Liturgical Ministers,” Worship 54 (March 1980): 104. R. S. Sugirtharajah, Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 7. Sugirtharajah, 12–13. Sugirtharajah, 16. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, eds., Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 3. Myra Rivera and Stephen D. Moore, “A Tentative Topography of Postcolonial Theology,” in Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology, ed. Stephen Moore and Myra Rivera (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 6. M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, Being (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2010), 66. Bryan N. Massingale, Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2010), xiii–xiv. Massingale, 24. Massingale, 26. Massingale, 37. Linda Martín Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Studies in Feminist Philosophy (New York: Oxford, 2006), 182. bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1989), 113. Copeland, 68–69. Burns and Jagessar, Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives (Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011), 26. Burns and Jagessar, 27. See Gláucia Vasconcelos Wilkey, ed., Worship and Culture: Foreign Country or Homeland? The Ongoing Life of the Lutheran World Federation Documents on Worship and Culture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014). See Moore and Rivera, 8. See further Dhawn Martin, “Pax Terra and Other Utopias? Planetarity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Kingdom of God,” in Planetary Loves, 292–302. Searle, “The Pedagogical Function of the Liturgy,” Worship 55, no. 4 (July 1981): 332–59, p. 334. Massingale, 97. Citing Eric Yamamoto, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Resolution in Post-Civil Rights America (New York: New York University Press, 1999). Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard E. McCarronRichard E. McCarron, associate professor of liturgy, and chair of the Department of Word and Worship at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois, teaches courses in sacramental theology and liturgy, culture, and history. He currently serves as the editor of the Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy.