Religion, theatre, and performance : acts of faith
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Religion, theatre, and performance : acts of faith
（Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies, 22）
Routledge, 2013, c2012
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Includes index
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The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world's most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative engagement from those within the fields of theatre and performance is one of the guiding principles of this volume. This collection features a diverse set of perspectives, written by some of the top scholars in the relevant fields, on the many modern intersections of religion with theatre and performance. Contributors argue that religion can no longer be conceived of as a cultural phenomenon that is safely sequestered in the "private sphere." It is instead an explicitly public force that stimulates and complicates public actions, and thus a crucial component of much performance. From mystic theologies of acting to the neuroscience of spirituality in rituals to the performance of secularism, these essays address a broad variety of religious traditions, sharing a common conception of religion as a crucial object of discourse-one that is formed by, and significantly formative of, performance.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Lance Gharavi Part I: Religious Actors 1. Becoming-empty: Tantrism and Theatre, Anthony Kubiak 2. The Theology of Actor Training: David Mamet, the Old Religion and the New Actor, Henry Bial 3. Hesychasm and Monastic Culture: Models for Understanding Holistic Acting, Andrew White 4. Queer Structures of Religious Feeling, Ann Pellegrini 5. Corporeality and Spiritual Transformation, Donnalee Dox Part II: Dramas and Theatres 6. Who is Rama? Richard Schechner 7. Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Islamic Playwright, Marvin Carlson 8. The Symbolist Legacy to Present-day Theatre: The Argument, Daniel Gerould 9. Invoking Gandhi: A Yoruba-Hindu-Muslim-Brazilian Sacred Fantasy, Isis McElroy Part III: Stages of Conflict 10. Performing Peace and Enacting Conflict in the Santa Fe Fiesta, Ronald L. Grimes 11. 'Prepare to Believe': The Creation Museum's Staging of Science and Religion, John Fletcher 12. Plain Speech Acts: Quakerism, Performance Studies and Immigration Activism, Tamara Underiner 13. Israeli Theatre's Homeopathic Struggle with the Religious Demon, Gad Kaynar 14. About/Doing Religion and Theatre: Study and Practice in the Academy, Lance Gharavi
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