Not the Words: Hymnody, Enacted Theology, and the Lutheran Inupiat
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 simultaneo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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| In: |
Dialog
Year: 2009, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 348-357 |
| Further subjects: | B
Alaska Native
B Singing B naming-practices B Communion of saints B Inupiat B Hymns |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00483.x |
