Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage write by D. Mason. This book was released on 2009-05-25. Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and conversations with performers, audience, and local scholars, Mason argues that râs lila actors and audience alike actively assume roles that locate them together in the spiritual reality that the play represents. Correlating Krishna devotion and theories of religious experience, this book suggests that the emotional experience of theatrical fiction may arise from the propensity of audiences to play out roles of their own through which they share a performance's reality.
Religion, Theatre, and Performance
Religion, Theatre, and Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Theatre, and Performance write by Lance Gharavi. This book was released on 2011-12-21. Religion, Theatre, and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world’s most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative engagement from those within the fields of theatre and performance is one of the guiding principles of this volume. This collection features a diverse set of perspectives, written by some of the top scholars in the relevant fields, on the many modern intersections of religion with theatre and performance. Contributors argue that religion can no longer be conceived of as a cultural phenomenon that is safely sequestered in the "private sphere." It is instead an explicitly public force that stimulates and complicates public actions, and thus a crucial component of much performance. From mystic theologies of acting to the neuroscience of spirituality in rituals to the performance of secularism, these essays address a broad variety of religious traditions, sharing a common conception of religion as a crucial object of discourse—one that is formed by, and significantly formative of, performance.
Evolution, Cognition, and Performance
Evolution, Cognition, and Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolution, Cognition, and Performance write by Bruce McConachie. This book was released on 2015-12-15. Evolution, Cognition, and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture and cognition work together dynamically every time a spectator interprets meaning during a performance. In this study, Bruce McConachie examines the biocultural basis of all performance, from its origins and the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us coming back for more. To effect this major reorientation, McConachie works within the scientific paradigm of enaction, which explains all human activities, including performances, as the interactions of mental, bodily, and ecological networks. He goes on to use our biocultural proclivity for altruism, as revealed in performance, to explore our species' gradual ethical progress on such matters as the changing norms of religious sacrifice, slavery, and LGBT rights. Along the way, the book engages with a wide range of performances, including Richard Pryor's stand-up, the film Titanic, aerialist performances, American football, and the stage and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski
Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski write by Catharine Christof. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious or spiritual nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work.The central argument is that through an embodied, materialist approach to religion, and through a critical reading of the concepts of the New Age, a new understanding of Grotowski and religion can be developed. This is a vital reference for academics in both Religion and Theatre Studies that have an interest in the spiritual aspects of Grotowski’s work.
Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage
Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage write by J. Westgate. This book was released on 2014-10-15. Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
