The State of Contemporary Music in Worship at Oraba Parish Koboko Archdeaconry Madi West Nile Diocese
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2023-09-15
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Uganda Christian University
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The study of this topic has given solutions to the challenges caused by contemporary music in Anglican worship at Ora’ba parish Koboko Archdeaconry. The majority of the respondents of 50% indicated that there will be need for church to pray for and impose the Canonical laws in order to address some of these issues like poor dressing, hairstyles, and other artificial body modification copied from window shopping which is practiced by the youths. Then 20% of the respondents viewed indicated that, the Pastor or Church Teacher is the worship leader which include music so he is to plan together with choir to be aligned with the texts and theme for a particular occasion while 15% of the respondents viewed suggested that the modern amplified musical instruments should be replaced with low sound traditional instruments for instance drums, shakers among others. Another 10% of the respondents suggested that the Church today should revisit the Anglican liturgical format in order to maintain orders in worship and instill spirituality in the worshipers. Lastly, 5% suggested that singing of Psalms in a worship service should be made mandatory.
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This is a dissertation.