{"id":295,"date":"2012-05-29T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2020-12-29T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:11:27","slug":"orality-and-the-welsh-revival-1904-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/orality-and-the-welsh-revival-1904-1906\/","title":{"rendered":"Orality and the Welsh Revival 1904-1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cOrality\u201d<\/em> is defined as <em>\u201cinteraction with the world by means of the spoken word\u201d<\/em> and contrasts with <em>\u201cconceptuality\u201d<\/em> which is defined as <em>\u201cinteracting with the world by means of ideas and concepts\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 Where reading and writing are secondary within a culture because of the lack of education or resources, the communication by means of the spoken word is often of primary importance in preserving what is valuable to a people and in communicating it to the next generation.\u00a0 The Welsh revival of 1904-1906, considered a precursor, some would say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apostolicarchives.com\/articles\/article\/8801925\/173190.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catalyst<\/a> of, the world famous Azusa Street revival of 1906-1908 offers an excellent example of the role of orality in a culture, where Welsh, the language of the common people, rather than the English, the language of the educated elites and often the clergy, was used predominantly.\u00a0 Though short, this essay offers a stimulating introduction to orality and an extensive bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a PDF of the essay <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/Orality-and-the-Welsh-Revivial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOrality\u201d is defined as \u201cinteraction with the world by means of the spoken word\u201d and contrasts with \u201cconceptuality\u201d which is defined as \u201cinteracting with the world by means of ideas and concepts\u201d.\u00a0 Where reading and writing are secondary within a culture because of the lack of education or resources, the communication by means of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,15,16,96,33],"tags":[143,140,141,142],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-psychology-of-religion","category-revival","category-sociology","category-theology","tag-azusa-street","tag-evan-roberts","tag-orality","tag-welsh-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}