Explorations in Decolonial Liturgy: ‘Many Voices’, ‘From Below’

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Council for World Mission (CWM), a global fellowship of thirty-two churches, has recently produced different liturgical resources that represent decolonial work in progress – notably, Cláudio Carvalhaes, ed., Liturgies from Below, and Viji Varghese Eapen, ed., With Many Voices. This article briefly contextualises that work in a wider view of liturgical theology and then reviews the CWM contributions. It asks questions of the CWM’s resources and of other forms of Christian worship from which the CWM initiatives consciously distinguish themselves.