Religion, theatre, and performance acts of faith - Gharavi, Lance (New York Routledge, 2012)
Introduction / Lance Gharavi -- Part I - 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 -- Part II - 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 -- Part III - 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Drama -- Religious aspects; Theater -- Religious aspects; Performance -- Religious aspects; Religion and drama; Religion in literature