Sonja Pilz
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p>The intent of this group is to engage in critical exploration of how we know what liturgical celebrations mean, with a view to learning how liturgy might better work to build a spiritually renewed community. Toward that end, the group will review current understandings of how liturgy means, with attention to pertinent pastoral projects.
Friday, January 3
8:30-9:15 Welcome back, catching up, and introductions
9:25-10:15 Allie Utley, dissertation
2:15-2:55 Michelle Baker-Wright, dissertation
3:05-3:45 Dirk Ellis, “Addressing Applause in Worship”
4:30-5:10 Michelle Whitlock, dissertation
5:20-6:00 Lauren Winner, The Dangers of Christian Practice (in the presence of the author). Ron Anderson (moderation)
Saturday, January 4
8:30-10:15 Joint session on Liturgy and Pain with Critical Theories: The Body in Pain (Chapter 4), Trauma and Transcendence (Intro, Chapter 2 and 3), Kimberly Belcher and Sonja Pilz (moderation)
11-11:40 Jennifer Lord, “Liturgy and Pain: Learning from Critical, Palliative, and Hospice Care Nurses’ Encounters with Patients’ Pain”
11:50-11:30 Hwarang Moon, "Funeral liturgy for suicide? A Korean Presbyterian Perspective"
2-2:45 Ed Foley, “Decolonization or Decolonialization”
2:55-3:45 Summative discussion of Liturgy and Pain, with possibilities for follow up in future years; evaluation of 2020 seminar; planning for 2021
All readings/papers can be found on our shared google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1msWBb6eoiobQr0oPGU63mHBVZH4rVf6P?usp=sharing.
Or you may click on the link in the email.
Friday, January 4
9:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m. Seminars
9:45 -10:15 Group introductions
10:15-12:15 David Hogue and Don Saliers, “Human Trauma and Lament Psalms: Texts and the ‘Wordless’”
12:15-1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45-3:15 p.m. Seminars
1:45-3:15 Ed Foley, “Is decolonialized liturgy possible?”
3:15-4:15 p.m. Break
4:15-6:15 p.m. Seminars
4:15-5:10 Michelle Whitlock, “The Liturgy: Practicing Relational Narrative”
5:20-6:15 Hwarang Moon, “The Influence of Liturgy on Human Memory”
Saturday, January 5
8:45-10:45 a.m. Seminars
8:45-9:45 Michelle Baker-Wright, “Sacramental Events as Kinetic Loci of Divine and Human Expression”
9:55-10:45 Anderson “Communities of Musical Practice”
11 a.m. - Noon (Possible Plenary Speaker, TBA)
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Seminars
1:30-2:15 Continuing conversation around Communities of Musical Practice
2:15-3:00 Review of session and Planning for 2020
2018 Seminar Agenda
Friday, January 5
10:30-12
Discussion of Mark Johnson, The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), discussion led by David Hogue
1:30-3
Bruce Hiebert, “The Christian Community: Enacted between memory and hope”
4-5:30
Michelle Whitlock, “One performance, infinite rehearsals: Redefining the Performance of Liturgy”
Michelle Baker-Wright, "Music, Ritual, Immediacy, and Memory: Exploring the Intersections"
Saturday, January 6
9:30-12
Sonja Pilz, “Praying in strange spaces - hybrid Jewish sacred spaces in New York City."
Marit Rong, “Pilgrimage as Individual and Communal Worship”
1:30-3:00
Allie Utley “Affect Theory and the Study of Liturgy”
Planning for 2019