Religion, theatre, and performance : acts of faith / edited by Lance Gharavi.

Other author Gharavi, Lance, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2012.
Description248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Contentebrary
Subjects
Drama--Religious aspects.
Theater--Religious aspects.
Performance--Religious aspects.
Religion and drama.
Religion in literature.

Variant title Religion, theater, and performance
SeriesRoutledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 22
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies 22. ^A571745
Contents Introduction / Lance Gharavi -- Religious Actors. Religion, Ritual, and Performance / Ronald L. Grimes -- Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies / Donnalee Dox -- Embodying the Disembodied: Hesychasm, Meditation, and Michael Chekhov's higher ego / R. Andrew White -- Becoming-Lucid: Theatre and Tantra / Anthony Kubiak -- Jew Media: Performance and Technology for the 58th Century / Henry Bial -- Plain Speech Acts: Reading Quakerism with Theatre and Performance Studies / Tamara Underiner -- Dramas and Theatres. The Religious Drama of Egypt's Ali Ahmed Bakathir / Marvin Carlson -- A Transdiasporic Paradigm: the Afox? Filhos de Gandhy / Isis Costa McElroy -- The Decline of Israeli Society as a Black Mass in the Theatre of Shmuel Hasfari / Gad Kaynar -- Return to Tradition: The Symbolist Legacy to the Present-Day Arts / Daniel Gerould -- Who is Rama? / Richard Schechner -- Secularization and its Discontents. Feeling Secular / Ann Pellegrini -- About[/]Doing: Religion and Theatre in the Academy / Lance Gharavi -- Performing Coexistence with Good Faith Intolerance / John Fletcher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011032263
ISBN9780415895453 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415895456 (alk. paper)

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