Religion, theatre, and performance
Subtitle: acts of faith
By: edited by Lance Gharavi
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 22; Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 22.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415895453
Subjects: Drama; Theater; Religion and drama; Performance; Religious aspects; Religion in literature
Other titles: Religion, theater, and performance
Description: This text examines the intersection of religion and theatrical performance in modernity/postmodernity. Religion, no longer sequestered in the 'private sphere, ' has become an explicitly public force. It stimulates and complicates public actions; it is a crucial component of performance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lance Gharavi; title: Religious Actors. Religion, Ritual, and Performance / Ronald L. Grimes; title: Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies / Donnalee Dox; title: Embodying the Disembodied: Hesychasm, Meditation, and Michael Chekhov's higher ego / R. Andrew White; title: Becoming-Lucid: Theatre and Tantra / Anthony Kubiak; title: Jew Media: Performance and Technology for the 58th Century / Henry Bial; title: Plain Speech Acts: Reading Quakerism with Theatre and Performance Studies / Tamara Underiner; title: Dramas and Theatres. The Religious Drama of Egypt's Ali Ahmed Bakathir / Marvin Carlson; title: A Transdiasporic Paradigm: the Afox? Filhos de Gandhy / Isis Costa McElroy; title: The Decline of Israeli Society as a Black Mass in the Theatre of Shmuel Hasfari / Gad Kaynar; title: Return to Tradition: The Symbolist Legacy to the Present-Day Arts / Daniel Gerould; title: Who is Rama? / Richard Schechner; title: Secularization and its Discontents. Feeling Secular / Ann Pellegrini; title: About[/]Doing: Religion and Theatre in the Academy / Lance Gharavi; title: Performing Coexistence with Good Faith Intolerance / John Fletcher.