Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)

Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)
ISBN-10
3647568546
ISBN-13
9783647568546
Category
Religion
Pages
421
Language
English
Published
2021-12-06
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Author
Heike Walz

Description

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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