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Carvalhaes, Cláudio

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About the Contributor(s): Cláudio Carvalhaes was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. A former shoeshining boy, he is also a liturgist, theologian, and artist. After serving churches in Brazil and the United States for almost ten years, Carvalhaes did his doctoral studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has published two books and edited a third in his native Brazil. Currently, he is the Associate Professor of Worship and Liturgy at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

Eucharist and Globalization

Wipf and Stock

What's Worship Got to Do with It?: Interpreting Life Liturgically

This book connects the living realms of the church, the self, the neighbor and the world. It envisions our daily local and global life from liturgical spaces, places where Christians worship God. Through these relations, we can connect worship with economy, preaching with raising a village, baptism with forms of citizenship, ecology and the market, Easter with immigration, liturgical knees with colonization, spirituality with minority voices, all uttering prayers that name racism, poverty and a liberation theology of glory. In these pages Claudio Carvalhaes issues a call to the churches to move from captive and colonized spaces into where the Spirit lives: among the poor, the needy, the forgotten. With a variety of relations between the Christian faith and our cultural ways of living, Carvalhaes offers new liturgical and theological imaginings to be engaged with the most vulnerable in our societies and the earth. A creative liturgical theology of liberation that makes sense of God between the world and the table/altar, between the pulpit and local communities, the worship space and our multiple lived experiences. For liturgy is an endless song of liberation. This book is a call to life! ""This book is a rare gift, a liturgical encounter, that celebrates God's presence among the poor and marginalized of this world. I strongly recommend it."" --James H. Cone, Professor, Union Theological Seminary ""As a historian, some writers about Christian liturgy have always alienated me with a-historical behavioral dogmatism--a Platonism of 'the proper.' My brother Claudio Carvalhaes refreshingly starts elsewhere, with an Aristotelian 'life comes first.' These richly contextualized essays liberate liturgy and show how liturgy can liberate."" --Jon Pahl, Professor, United Lutheran Seminary ""Liturgy is, as Carvalhaes has lived, led and taught it across the Americas, a street theatre of resistance. By critically interfacing the circulatory powers of the local (social, economic, ecological) with traditional memories, the divine economy becomes performatively enfleshed in the local. Every worshipper in this way assumes the work of an organic intellectual!"" --Sharon Betcher, Senior Fellow, Whidbey Institute, Whidbey Island, Washington ""Carvalhaes refreshing collection of essays liberates us from centuries of distorted liturgy. Wise and indispensable insight is given on centering and empowering a people to focus--via a contextualized worship--on what is important: their fellow congregants. The reader is challenged to embrace our diversity, the means of finding God's liberative presence at the margins of society."" --Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor, Iliff School of Theology ""Christian worship is often imagined and practiced as two-dimensional: the individual and/or the congregation in relation to God. For Carvalhaes there is a third dimension: the neighbor in need. Authentic worship, he argues, is service to, with, and for the poor. If this is a challenge, it is also a promise of liberation and vitality."" --Tom F. Driver, The Paul J. Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary Claudio Carvalhaes is Associate Professor of Worship at Union Theology Seminary in New York City. He is the author of Eucharist and Globalization. Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality (2013), editor of Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives: Only One Is Holy (2015), and editor of several issues of the journal CrossCurrents.

What's Worship Got to Do with It?

Cascade Books

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 authors 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.

Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality

Pickwick Publications

This book connects the living realms of the church, the self, the neighbor and the world. It envisions our daily local and global life from liturgical spaces, places where Christians worship God. Through these relations, we can connect worship with economy, preaching with raising a village, baptism with forms of citizenship, ecology and the market, Easter with immigration, liturgical knees with colonization, spirituality with minority voices, all uttering prayers that name racism, poverty and a liberation theology of glory. In these pages Cláudio Carvalhaes issues a call to the churches to move from captive and colonized spaces into where the Spirit lives: among the poor, the needy, the forgotten. With a variety of relations between the Christian faith and our cultural ways of living, Carvalhaes offers new liturgical and theological imaginings to be engaged with the most vulnerable in our societies and the earth. A creative liturgical theology of liberation that makes sense of God between the world and the table/altar, between the pulpit and local communities, the worship space and our multiple lived experiences. For liturgy is an endless song of liberation. This book is a call to life!

This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective. "Praying with" offers a distinctive way of praying that can help orient our prayers around the "where" we pray and "with whom" we pray as the locus of the body's and heart's theological praxis. The book helps create language to pray with people and in situations we are not used to praying with; it insists on praying amidst racism, poverty, violence, and suffering; it calls us to pray at night and at the end of the world when we are overcome by fear, hurt, climate disaster, or economic impoverishment; it ventures into interfaith prayer settings; and it claims a sense of "self" that is not discrete, encapsulated in its own thinking or feeling--rather, it understands the notion of the self as entangled with the whole earth and each sentient and nonsentient being. Thus, to "pray with" in this book is to take the location of one's prayer more seriously and, individually and collectively, to gain an awareness of our grounding and positionality, therefore creating a theological structure that assumes both the listening of our own heart and the voices of everything around us.

Praying with Every Heart

This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective. "Praying with" offers a distinctive way of praying that can help orient our prayers around the "where" we pray and "with whom" we pray as the locus of the body's and heart's theological praxis. The book helps create language to pray with people and in situations we are not used to praying with; it insists on praying amidst racism, poverty, violence, and suffering; it calls us to pray at night and at the end of the world when we are overcome by fear, hurt, climate disaster, or economic impoverishment; it ventures into interfaith prayer settings; and it claims a sense of "self" that is not discrete, encapsulated in its own thinking or feeling-rather, it understands the notion of the self as entangled with the whole earth and each sentient and nonsentient being. Thus, to "pray with" in this book is to take the location of one's prayer more seriously and, individually and collectively, to gain an awareness of our grounding and positionality, therefore creating a theological structure that assumes both the listening of our own heart and the voices of everything around us.

Praying with Every Heart: Orienting Our Lives to the Wholeness of the World

It is time for an eco-liturgical liberation theology! One that hears the cries of the people and the earth and orients thinking and practices from their pain and suffering. In this book, Cláudio Carvalhaes writes from where it hurts in multiple registers and crossings. Featuring a Foreword by Ivone Gebara and full-color art by children.

Ritual at World's End: Essays on Eco-Liturgical Liberation Theology

Barber's Son Press

With a foreword by Ivone Gebara. "Ritual at World’s End maps Cláudio’s conversion to an ecological approach to liturgy. It also manifests his ever-confident eschewal of the usual authorities in liturgical theology. Instead, he is looking to liberation theologians, and listening to the poor. So, these are the field notes of a man on a journey—to the land, to his past, with his children, for the overlooked—as he wrestles with his questions, privilege, and responsibilities. Passion and urgency, truth-telling and testimony, combine with great force in Cláudio’s thinking, and this remarkable book will be well-read, gather companions, and muster more justice in the life of believers. Read it for it’s challenge, gift, provocation, blessing, agenda-setting, summons…" Stephen Burns Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity Melbourne, Australia

Ritual at World's End: Cláudio Carvalhaes

Gebara, Ivone

Paperback with full-color interior artwork by Marc H. Ellis. Cláudio's every literary, liturgical, artistic expression is an exquisitely magical reflection of God's truly radical love. Cláudio always embodies this most selfless and yet lifegiving form of love in the most vibrant, imaginative, gentle, surprising and inspirational of ways. Here in his latest book, he blesses his readers abundantly with his theological brilliance, his compassionate heart for all in God's creation, his unending cry for justice for all . . . Dr. Jenny Te Paa Daniel Te Mareikura & Interim Director National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa, New Zealand "Every landscape is a multi-scape." Cláudio Carvalhaes has given us yet another gift in this collection of performance-lectures turned essays. With deep care, Carvalhaes weaves together literary and historical sources to better attune readers to inventories and aspirations of the multivalent present. Join in this conversation, this dance, this song. Robert O. Smith (Chickasaw Citizen) University of North Texas Professor Cláudio Carvalhaes is a household name both in Brazil and the US and one of this century's most consequential religious scholars. An artist-sentient-thinker, Carvalhaes thinks/speaks with his entire body, in a grounded manner.... Raimundo César Barreto, Jr. Associate Professor of World Christianity Princeton Theological Seminary

How Do We Become Green People and Earth Communities?: Inventory, Metamorphoses, and Emergenc(i)es

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