This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both fields, this book shows what is at stake in this dialectical scholarship.

Introduction; Cláudio Carvalhaes PART I: MUSLIM AND JEWISH PERSPECTIVES 1. Returning to the One: Postcolonial Muslim Liturgy; Sophia R. Shafi 2. Toward a Genuine Congregation: The Form of the Muslim Friday Prayer, Revisited; Shadaab Rahemtulla 3. After the Holocaust and Israel. On Liturgy and the Postcolonial (Jewish) Prophetic in the New Diaspora; Marc H. Ellis PART II: AFRICA AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES 4. The Ethical Implications of Migration on Liturgy: An African Postcolonial Perspective; Beatrice Okyere Manu 5. 'Do This in Remembrance of Me:' An African Feminist Contestation of the Embodied Sacred Liturgical Space In The Celebration Of Eucharist; Lilian Siwila 6. Liturgy and Justice in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Holy people, Holy places, Holy things in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ); Moyo Herbert 7. Navigating In Different Seas: Christianity and African Brazilian Religions; Miriam Rosa PART III: LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES 8. De Evangelization of the Knees: Epistemology, Osteoporosis and Affliction; Nancy Cardoso Pereira 9. ¡Ponte A Nuestro Lado! Be on Our Side! The Challenge of the Central American Liberation Theology Masses; Ann Hidalgo 10. Choosing a Heritage. Some Urban South American Mennonites Reread, Reinvent, and Honor the Tradition; Marisa Strizzi 11. Liturgy With Your Feet: Romaria da Terra Pilgrimage in Paraná, Brazil: Re Appropriating Liturgical Rites In The Quest For Life Spaces And Their Liberation; Júlio Cézar Adam PART IV: OCEANIA, ASIA, AND ASIAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES 12. A New Zealand Prayer Book = He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa: A Study in Post colonial Liturgy; Storm Swain 13. Liturgical Time and Tehching Hsieh; Gerald Liu 14. Postcolonial Reading of Liturgy in India During The Colonial/Postcolonial Period As A Mode of Resistance; C. I. David Joy 15. Baptism as Crossing Beyond Belonging?; HyeRan Kim Cragg PART V: EUROPE, EUROPEAN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN AND USA PERSPECTIVES 16. A Flagging Peace?; SiobhanGarrigan 17. Holy Crumbs, Table Habits And (Dis)placing Conversations Beyond 'Only One Is Holy,'; Michael N. Jagessar 18. Puzzling Over Postcolonial Liturgical Heteroglossia: In Search of Liturgical Decoloniality And Dialogic Orthodoxy; Kristine Suna Koro 19. When Seminaries Get Stuck; Stephen Burns 20. The Cherokee Stomp Dance: A Case Study of Post Colonial Native American Contextualization; Corky Alexander 21. Postcolonial Whiteness: Being With In Worship; Sharon Fennema Bibliography