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

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)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783525568545
Publisher: V&R Academic
Publication date: 12/06/2021
Series: Research in Contemporary Religion , #32
Edition description: 1. Edition
Pages: 420
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Heike Walz is Professor of Intercultural Theology, Mission Studies and Religious Studies at the Augustana University, Theological Seminary of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Neuendettelsau, Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction Heike Walz 11

Part I Dance in Interdisciplinary Approaches

Dance as Third Space. Interreligious, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) in the Perspective of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology Heike Walz 27

Intertwinements of Music/Sound and Dance/Movement as a "Third Space" Stephanie Schroedter 69

Does Your God Dance? The Role of Rhythmic Bodily Movement in Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values Kimerer L. LaMothe 81

Part II Dance in the History of Christianity: From the Early Church to World Christianity

The Indictment of Dance by Christian Authors in Late Antiquity. The Example of the Dance of Herodias' Daughter (Mt 14; Mk 6) Camille Lepeigneux 97

The Dances of the Virgin Mary. Second to Twenty-First Century Martin Leutzsch 113

Canons & Choreographies. The Myth of the Medieval Church adverse to Dancing Philip Knäble 139

Dance and Gender in Churches in Germany since the 20th Century. Insights and Conclusions for Church Dance Today Tatjana K. Schnütgen 155

The Sacred Dance as a Miraculous Practice in Ibandla lamaNazaretha Nkosinathi Sithole 175

Part III Dance in Different Religious Traditions: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives

Dance in Hasidic Judaism Susanne Talabardon 195

Dancing with Gods. Dance and Initiation in Ancient Greek Religious Practices Karin Schlapbach 213

Dancing the Islamic Way. Two Famous Sufi Masters Shahzad Bashir 237

Moving with the Sound of the Story. Dance and Religion in West Africa with Special Consideration of the Epe-Ekpe Dances in Togo Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué 251

Beyond the Gaps of Archives. Transfer and Transformation of Knowledge in Ritual Dance in Afro-Brazilian Religions Inga Scharf da Silva 269

Part IV Dance in Christian Theologies

Flesh, Body, and Embodiment: Surplus of Corporeal Becoming. Theology and Dancing Bodies Ángel F. Méndez Montoya 291

Dancing to the Rhythm of Analogia Entis. Exploration of Dance as a Christian Theological Category Riyako Cecilia Hikota 305

Dancing From Doing Theology to Dancing Theology. Dance-theological Sketches Based on Tango Argentina Jasmine Subner 319

Part V Inter-Dance: Interreligious and Intercultural Dances in the Third Space

In-Between Siva and Jesus. Indian Classical Dance as a 'Third Space' Dominika Hadrysiewicz 337

Dancing in Between Religion(s). Homi Bhabha's Concept of Third Space and its Possibilities for Interreligious Encounters Iris B. Steil 351

The Alchemists' Dream. Dance as a Laboratory for Intercultural Theology? Raphael Sartorius 363

Index of Names 375

Index of Places 381

Index of Subjects 385

Notes on Contributors 419

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