Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities to Reach Their Kingdom Goals

Creating Local Arts Together is a manual designed to guide an individual or group into a local community?s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God?s kingdom. The practical, playful text reduces experience-based scholarly insights gained from multiple decades of incarnational ministry around the world into a flexible seven-step process. This manual is the second book in a two-volume set on the principles and practices of ethnodoxology. The first volume, entitledWorship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook, presents in textbook format the central ?Foundations,? ?Stories,? and ?Tools? designed to equip readers in exploring more fully this important new field of research and ministry. Review This manual combines intellectual rigor with a loving sensitivity toward local communities, and its all informed by a great wealth of experience. In this age of the endangerment of so many of the worlds distinctive artistic traditions-and with the expansion of Christianity often blamed for it-Im excited by the potential effects of this thoughtful guide. Neil R. Coulter, PhDsenior editor of the journal Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith