Dance as Third Space

Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)

420 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Research in Contemporary Religion
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Tanz
• ISBN: 9783525568545
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2021
• Größe: 23.5 x 16 cm
• Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
• Herausgegeben von: Heike Walz
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Shahzad Bashir, Amélé Ekué, Dominika Hadrysiewicz, Riyako Cecilia Hikota, Philip Knäble, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Camille Lepeigneux, Martin Leutzsch, Ángel Francisco Méndez Montoya, Raphael Sartorius, Inga Scharf da Silva, Karin Schlapbach, Tatjana K. Schnütgen, Stephanie Schroedter, Nkosinathi Sithole, Iris Steil, Jasmine Suhner, Susanne Talabardon, Heike Walz, Hans-Günter Heimbrock, Trygve Wyller, Hans-Joachim Sander, Stefanie Knauss, Carla Danani, Judith Gruber, Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen