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Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) (Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 032) - Hardcover

Heike Walz

 
9783525568545: Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) (Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 032)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3525568541 ISBN 13: 9783525568545
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021

Synopsis

Dance plays an important role in many religious traditions, in rites of passage, processions, healing rituals or festivals. But it is also controversial, especially in Christianity. Colonial European Christian discourses tend to separate dance from religion(s) and spirituality. This volume explores dance as Third Space, following Homi Bhabha's postcolonial metaphor. The Inter-Dance approach combines interdisciplinary theoretical considerations with case studies. International experts examine dance controversies and discourses from the early church to World Christianity, as well as in Hasidic Judaism, Greek mysteries, Islamic Sufism, West African Togolese religions, and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda. Christian dance theologies are unfolded and the boundary-crossing potential of dance in interreligious and intercultural encounters is explored. The volume breaks new ground in how dance as ephemeral performative art, embodied thought and gendered discourse can transform studies of religion.

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Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3525568541
ISBN 13 
9783525568545
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
420
Editor
Heike Walz