Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith

Religion, Theatre, and Performance Acts of Faith
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
PART I Religious Actors
2 Religion, Ritual, and Performance
3 Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies
4 Embodying the Disembodied: Hesychasm, Meditation, and Michael Chekhov’s Higher Ego
5 Becoming-Lucid: Theatre and Tantra
6 Jew Media: Performance and Technology for the Fifty-Eighth Century
7 Plain Speech Acts: Reading Quakerism with Theatre and Performance Studies
PART II Dramas and Theatres
8 The Religious Drama of Egypt’s Ali Ahmed Bakathir
9 A Transdiasporic Paradigm: The Afoxé Filhos de Gandhy
10 The Decline of Israeli Society as a Black Mass in the Theatre of Shmuel Hasfari
11 Return to Tradition: The Symbolist Legacy to the Present-Day Arts
12 Who Is Rama?
PART III Secularization and Its Discontents
13 Feeling Secular
14 About[/]Doing: Religion and Theatre in the Academy
15 Performing Coexistence with Good Faith Intolerance
Contributors
Index