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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Published in:Dialog
Main Author: Hanson, Kristin Helweg
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2009
Subjects:
Anchorage
Inupiaq
Inupiat
Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00483.x
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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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