Not the Words: Hymnody, Enacted Theology, and the Lutheran Inupiat
Abstract : The theology of hymnody is not text‐bound. This article asserts that for the Lutheran Inupiat of Anchorage (Alaska), the practice of singing enacts the important theology. The Lutheran Inupiat still use the missionary hymns of the 1880s—early 1900s. This article explores how singing hymns...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2009
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00483.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1540-6385.2009.00483.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00483.x |
Summary: | Abstract : The theology of hymnody is not text‐bound. This article asserts that for the Lutheran Inupiat of Anchorage (Alaska), the practice of singing enacts the important theology. The Lutheran Inupiat still use the missionary hymns of the 1880s—early 1900s. This article explores how singing hymns simultaneously perpetuates Inupiaq spiritual culture and participates in the adopted Lutheran heritage. Inupiaq naming‐practices and song‐genealogies enrich Christian understandings of the ‘communion of saints’, which is enacted through singing. |
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