A passage into community - claiming the past, embracing the present: toward a trans-cultural twenty first century worship in Long Beach, California

Jane S Galloway

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A passage into community - claiming the past, embracing the present: toward a trans-cultural twenty first century worship in Long Beach, California

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Jane S Galloway. A Passage Into Community - Claiming the Past, Embracing the Present: Toward a Trans-cultural Twenty First Century Worship In Long Beach, California. Claremont School of Theology. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8709fd46-5592-4a32-843c-4e401857f169.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

J. S. Galloway. A passage into community - claiming the past, embracing the present: toward a trans-cultural twenty first century worship in Long Beach, California. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8709fd46-5592-4a32-843c-4e401857f169

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Jane S Galloway. A Passage Into Community - Claiming the Past, Embracing the Present: Toward a Trans-Cultural Twenty First Century Worship In Long Beach, California. Claremont School of Theology. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8709fd46-5592-4a32-843c-4e401857f169.

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Jane S Galloway

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Abstract

The 2000 census found Long Beach, California 'the most multicultural city in the U.S.' Despite this climate of diversity, in the vast majority of its Protestant churches either a single cultural group's worship predominates or a multi-ethnic congregation worships through one dominant cultural lens. Faced with this dilemma, the author examines the problem of the multicultural worship community model, in which separate cultures exist in a shared place without engaging deeply together, and envisions a new transcultural model that communicates across cultural boundaries. For artists, unity exists in a collective realm of awareness that Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. Christians access this realm through the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The American slave church reached that realm of Spirit (through trance, music, conjure, praise) to manifest a living relationship with God through Jesus of Nazareth--the Afro-Asiatic Galilean Jew. Today, while the dominant white culture worships a coopted oppressor-God and calls it Jesus, new models are needed to bring cultures together and to bring the wisdom of the feminine into 21st century male-dominated ministry. Jane Galloway, a former professional theater artist, is now senior pastor of Immanuel Community African Methodist Episcopal Church in Long Beach, California. She was the sole female D. Min. graduate from Claremont School of Theology in 2004. Her project facilitates the emergence of a common transcultural language of worship. Using her understanding of the arts as a tool for reaching beyond superficial divisions and her unique cross-cultural ministry, she provides a model for ministries to open lines of communication at a deep level across cultures. In the actual rite of passage event, Dr. Galloway has utilized three distinct steps of ritual (invocation, action, and closure) to move the congregation forward from a past identity as a Eurocentric, white Baptist, isolationist congregation to a new community identity as a 21st century transcultural African Methodist Episcopal Church. The project is accompanied by a DVD of the model event, which serves as a template for this kind of worship community healing and building. Each church or community that creates such a project will find its own unique language, growing out of its particular culture.

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