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Engaging the Popular Imagination; Engaging the Holy Week culture

Grech, Michael; Mayo, Peter
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/28/engaging-the-popular-imagination-engaging-the-holy-week-culture/

Publisher:  Counter Punch
Date Written:  28/03/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Holy Week, in the Christian religious tradition, comprises an important series of events that take place in many communities in the Mediterranean, Latin America and beyond around this time – events commemorating Jesus Christ's entry to Jerusalem, his last supper with the Apostles, together with his passion, death and resurrection. These commemorative events extend well beyond religious devotion and piety.

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The intention, in this Holy Week project, was for both session leader and rest of the participants to move ‘from the known to the unknown' to adopt a well known pedagogical maxim. It was meant to generate a learning experience for all involved in the spirit of informed dialogue, irrespective of one's religious or non religious persuasion. The context was set with an initial session providing a rigorous overview of the historical developments of outward Holy Week events on the island, with passing references to other countries, notably Spain. The invited resource person provoked participants to engage in dialogue drawing on their own perceptions, some based on evidence and others based on hearsay, and considering these critically. We now consider a number of issues concerning Holy Week, tackled in the programme, which, we feel, one can address in an emancipatory and progressive manner. People committed to emancipatory politics can engage critically and fruitfully with these and similar features or events.

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