Beyond its entertainment value, every piece of creative literature has something more to say which reading between the lines often has a way of revealing. This is true of the novel Purple Hibiscus by the award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. While his novel says something about the family, politics, post-colonial history and religious realities such as priesthood, mission, Mary, and the Eucharist, this paper looks at what it can tell us about liturgical inculturation and its implications for the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria. It is hoped that the paper would help to continue, in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, the conversation on the nexus between Ecclesiology and Creative Literature.

除了其娱乐价值之外，每件创意文学作品都有更多话要说，字里行间的阅读常常有一种揭示的方式。屡获殊荣的尼日利亚作家Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie的小说《紫芙蓉》就是如此。虽然他的小说讲述了家庭，政治，后殖民历史和宗教现实，例如神职，传教士，玛丽和圣体圣事，但本文着眼于它可以告诉我们有关礼拜仪式的文化及其对罗马天主教会的影响在尼日利亚。希望本文能本着跨学科的精神，继续推动关于宗教学与创作文学之间联系的对话。