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 Afoxé 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.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 22
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