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1 Nicholas Denysenko, “Liturgical Theology in Crisis – Twenty-First Century Version,” Worship 95 (2021): 292–298.
2 By “West/Western” I mean the liberal capitalist democracies spanning Western Europe and North America while also acknowledging pockets of the “One-Third-World” within the “Two-Thirds-World.”
3 Brian D. McLaren, Do I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (New York: St. Martin’s Essentials, 2022), 75.
4 Despite some shrill attempts to mobilize the specters of Christendom for various ideologies of Christian nationalism and neo-fascist theocracy in Europe, Russia, and the Americas, the recent interrogations of the dawning “after-Christianity” moment appeared in the work of Jean-Luc Marion and Chantal Delsol, among others. See the overview of their recent reflections in Frederick Bauerschmidt, “After Christendom: Two books from France address the future of Catholicism in a post-Christian society,” Commonweal 149, no. 5 (2022): 34–39.
5 Asma Uddin, “Why Polarization is a Threat to Americans’ Religious Liberty,” USA Today, April 13, 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/04/13/how-political-polarization-threatens-religious-liberty-america-column/7186482002/.
6 Roc O’Connor, SJ, “Long Division Ever Divisive: A Lament,” Worship 95 (2021): 204.
7 Denysenko, “Liturgical Theology in Crisis,” 294.
8 See “PRRI 2021 American Values Atlas: Religious Affiliation Updates and Trends: White Christian Decline Slows, Unaffiliated Growth Levels Off,” April 27, 2022, https://www.prri.org/spotlight/prri-2021-american-values-atlas-religious-affiliation-updates-and-trends-white-christian-decline-slows-unaffiliated-growth-levels-off/.
9 Edward Foley, “Sacramentality, Chaos Theory and Decoloniality,” Religions 10 (2019): 44–45. Doi:10.3390/rel10070418.
10 Ryan P. Burge, “Gen Z and Religion in 2021,” June 15, 2022, https://religioninpublic.blog/2022/06/15/gen-z-and-religion-in-2021/.
11 Burge, “Gen Z.”
12 Ryan P. Burge, “The Death of the Episcopal Church is Near,” July 6, 2021, https://religioninpublic.blog/2021/07/06/the-death-of-the-episcopal-church-is-near/.
13 With Poland an arguable exception, the Eastern and Central European landscapes of organized religion are far from booming or monolithic. On the unique characteristics of post-socialist and post-soviet spirituality in Europe, see Czech theologian Tomáš Halík, I Want You to Be: On the God of Love, trans. Gerald Turner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016).
14 Mirella Klomp, “Ars Ludendi: Urban Liturgies as Public Service in a Secular World,” Studia Liturgica 52, no. 1 (2022): 105–119.
15 Klomp, 113.
16 Dominic Abel, “The ‘Second Program’ between Common Practice and Reflected Faith,” trans. Allison Werner Hoenen, Studia Liturgica 52, no. 1 (2022):132–142.
17 Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, “A Global Sign of Outward Grace: The Sacramentality of the World Church in the Era of Globalization,” CTSA Proceedings 67 (2012): 20.
18 Robert F. Taft, SJ, FBA, “In Dialogue with Fred McManus: Catholic Liturgy and the Christian East at Vatican II – Nostalgia for Orthodoxy,” The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry 72, no. 2 (2012): 471.
19 Taft, 476.
20 Gerald C. Liu, “Christian Liturgy: The Gift of Devotional Digressions,” Studia Liturgica 52, no. 1 (2022): 86.
21 McLaren, 208 and 213.
22 Anthony Ruff, OSB, “The Church is Shrinking: The Liturgy Helps Us Deal with That,” Worship 94 (2020): 4–10.
23 Ruff, 8.
24 For a brilliant, long overdue, commonsense, and detailed critique of the popular idea that ritual worship (i.e., liturgy) is a play, see Christina M. Gschwandtner, “Is Liturgy Ludic? Distinguishing between the Phenomena of Play and Ritual,” Religions 12 (2021): 1–26.
25 Vincent of Lerins, “Commonitory: For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies,” New Advent, 2:6, https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm.
26 Charlotte Dalwood, “A Body That Matters: Liturgy, Mediation, Performativity,” Studia Liturgica 51, no. 1 (2021): 73–85.
27 McLaren, 175.
28 McLaren, 196–197.
29 See esp. the list of strategies in McLaren, 195–196.
30 I’m referring here to Article VII of the Augsburg Confession which states that “to the true unity of the Church it is enough to agree concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and the administration of the Sacraments. Nor is it necessary that human traditions, that is, rites or ceremonies, instituted by [sic] men, should be everywhere alike.” See https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-vii/.
31 Romano Guardini, “On the Essence of the Liturgical Act,” https://www.ccwatershed.org/2013/09/05/1964-letter-romano-guardini/.
32 For a thoughtful exploration of land acknowledgments see Becca Whitla, “The Theological Challenge of Territorial Acknowledgments in Liturgy,” Worship 96, no. 1 (2022): 55–75.
33 Cláudio Carvalhaes, “A Decolonial Prayer,” in Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives, ed. Raimundo Barreto and Roberto Sirvent (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 275.
34 Guardini, “On the Essence of the Liturgical Act.”
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Kristine Suna-Koro
Kristine Suna-Koro, associate professor of theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, is a pastor of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the author of In Counterpoint: Postcoloniality, Diaspora, and Sacramental Theology (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017).