Hallelujah for the Day: An African Prayer Book - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764807900 ISBN 13: 9780764807909

Publisher: Liguori Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Presenting more than 150 prayers collected from 50 African societies, this rich and inspiring collection address the entire spectrum of human expereience ― birth and death, petition and thanksgiving, foregiveness and salvation. This prayerbook is ideal for use in ecumenical settings, Kwanza celebrations, and Black History Month. All people who find a prayerbook helpful for conversing with God will rejoice in Hallelujah for the Day.

Paperback

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony J. Gittins, CSSp, is in his twenty-fourth year at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and is currently professor of mission and culture. Born in Manchester, England, he earned an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has taught and worked in some thirty-five countries. His pastoral outreach includes ministry in cultures from Africa to the Pacific, and work with Chicago's disenfranchised, especially homeless women. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous articles. Father Gittins also lectures and leads retreats nationally and internationally. He continues his anthropological work by spending periods of time in local churches, especially in Africa and the Central Pacific, working on inculturation by bringing learnings from cultural anthropology and theology together. His commitment to homeless women in Chicago, whose stories he told in Where There's Hope, There's Life: Women's Stories of Homelessness and Survival, is ongoing.

Review:

Hallelujah for the Day: An African Prayer Book is far from being yet another prayer book. It distinguishes itself as unique because it rediscovers the traditions of prayer from an African perspective. --Maurice J. Nutt, C.Ss.R., Pastor, St. Alphonsus Liguori (Rock) Catholic Church

About this edition

• Publisher: Liguori Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0764807900
• ISBN 13: 9780764807909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Anthony J. Gittins