Slum Worship Styles
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SLUM WORSHIP STYLES

SIMPLE ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

During the first week of the course attend a slum church. Write a less than one page analysis for discussion. Use this expereince to start your notebook of observations each week about urban poor culture (in the front of the notebook), and indigenous culture (in back). These will be integrated into a paper and presentation at the end of the course. if yoi see linkages, between these cultural issues and church or evangelism note these as well.

  1. What was the physical context of worship?
  2. What are the noticeable features of the participants?
  3. Describe ten characteristics of the worship
  4. Why do you think they worship in this style? What is contextually determined? What is imported?

All assignments need your name, class number and date in top right corner, should have 1" margins all round, be single spaced, with a cenred Heading and often 3-5 subheadings. .