Creating Local Arts Together - Revised and Updated
Description
Cultivating Creativity for Kingdom Flourishing
Creating Local Arts Together is a manual that offers a transformative approach to integrating local arts with kingdom work. The practical text reduces experience-based scholarly insights into a flexible seven-step process. The purpose of this manual is to guide your involvement in working toward a new reality, one in which all communities are using all their gifts to worship, obey, and enjoy God.
In this revised edition, Brian Schrag has incorporated user feedback, lessons learned, and additional real-life stories of these principles over the last decade. This book includes an added index; periodic reflection questions; case studies from people applying CLAT in various contexts; updated references; and more content devoted to multicultural contexts. Drawing on historically robust discoveries and methods of academic disciplines?ethnomusicology, folklore, performance studies, anthropology, biblical studies, missiology, and ethnodoxology?Creating Local Arts Together teaches about artistic communication within communities, whether cultures close to home or far afield.
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Brian Schrag, PhD, serves as Senior Ethnomusicology and Arts Consultant with SIL Global, and Professor Emeritus at Dallas International University (DIU). He lived and worked in Central Africa, headed the integration of ethnoarts into SIL for thirteen years, and founded DIU's Center for Excellence in World Arts. Brian has Huntington's Disease, spurring him to create artistry and tools to encourage others also affected. More broadly, he promotes community-led, arts-energized activities resulting in more signs of the New Creation.
Content
Preface
History and Acknowledgments
Features of the Revised Edition
Who Should Use this Manual?
Framing the Seven Conversations
Always toward Heaven
All the Arts from All the World for All of God's Purposes
From Creation to New Creation
Foundations
Jesus's Incarnation as Our Model
Three Approaches to Arts in Mission
Ethnodoxology
Ultimate Motivations: New Creation and its Distortions
Preparing for Conversations
Creating Local Arts Together: Idealized
Creating Local Arts Together: Real Life
A CLAT Story: Songwriting in a Multicultural Community
How to Learn CLAT
Conversation Partners
How to Apply CLAT
Starting (and sometimes ending) Small
Some Advice and Encouragement
Conversations
Conversation 1: Meet a Community and its Arts
Conversation 2: Specify Kingdom Goals
Conversation 3: Connect Genres to Goals
Conversation 4: Analyze Genres and Events
4A: Look through Seven Basic Lenses
4B: Identify Artistic Domain Features
4C: Discover Deeper Community Connections
4D: Encourage Churches to Integrate Artistry More Holistically
Conversation 5: Spark Creativity
Conversation 6: Improve Results
Conversation 7: Celebrate and Integrate for Continuity
Closing MATTER
Closing 1: Quick Reference
Closing 2: Sample Community Arts Profile (CAP) Outline
Closing 3: Global Ethnodoxology Network's Core Values
Closing 4: Index of Artistic Domain Research Activities
Closing 5: Index of Sample Sparking Activities
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
