Choosing a Tongue: Language, Justice, and Liturgy in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti

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Notes

Episcopal News Service, “French Prayer Book Project Under Way,” May 22, 1980, Episcopal News Archives, press release # 80186.

Episcopal News Service, “Print Release for French Liturgies Coming in January,” November 12, 2003, Episcopal News Archives, press release # 2002-259-9.

David Nicholls, Dessalines to Duvalier (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 1996), 43.

Cecile Accilien, “Haitian Creole in a Transnational Context,” in Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South, eds. Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, and Cécile Accilien (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007), 79.

Ibid., 77.

James Thayer Addison, The Episcopal Church in the United States 1789–1931 (New York: Scribner, 1951), 238, emphasis mine.

Accilien, 88.

Ibid., 89.

David Power, “The Song of the Lord in an Alien Land,” in Politics and Liturgy, eds. Herman Schmidt and David Power (New York: Herder and Herder, 1974), 85–86.

Nicholls, xxxv.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Dignity (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996), 94.

Herman Schmidt, “Lines of Political Action in Contemporary Liturgy,” in Politics and Liturgy, 26–27.

Here I am using the term indicated according to Roy A. Rappaport's discussion of “indices.” See Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 54–68.

See Erving Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), for a full discussion of the way that ethics governing future action are implied by the enactment of social relationships in society because they imply agreement between parties about the nature of their relationship.

Diocesan Press Service, “Prayer Book in French Provided for Haiti,” January 31, 1975, Episcopal News Archives, press release # 75039.

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L. Celeste Gardner

L. Celeste Gardner is a member of the Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission Council and St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, NC. She received her MTS from Duke Divinity School in 2008.