Archive for tag: Oberammergau

Archive pour tag : Oberammergau

In September 2022, I traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, to attend the village’s world-famous, once-a-decade Passion play. I’m working on a book about how local communities reinterpret the Stations of the Cross to claim divine solidarity in the face of injustice, a project that has led me to Passion rituals of many kinds. Last Good Friday, students invited me to join an ecumenical Atlanta congregation composed predominantly of people living on the street as they carried a cross down a gentrified stretch of busy Ponce de Leon Avenue to lament the racialized displacement wrought by recent urban redevelopment. The next day, a community in Atlanta’s Peoplestown neighborhood memorialized Jesus’ Crucifixion beside the burned-out Wendy’s parking lot where police officers killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020. I’ve become captivated by the question of what it is about the Stations of the Cross—this quintessentially traditional, medieval devotion and its fourteen-station template—that makes it such a rich site of theological agency for communities on the margins.
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Posted: Mar. 1, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13448
Categories: OpinionIn this article: anti-semitism, Christian, Good Friday, Judaism, Oberammergau, Passion Play
Transmis : 1 mars 2023 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=13448
Catégorie : OpinionDans cet article : anti-semitism, Christian, Good Friday, Judaism, Oberammergau, Passion Play