Between Dancing and Writing : : The Practice of Religious Studies / / Kimerer L. LaMothe.

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• VerfasserIn: LaMothe, Kimerer L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Hegel, G. W. F.,; Kierkegaard, Søren,; Leeuw, Gerardus van der,; Schleiermacher, Friedrich,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. In close readings of Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, LaMothe traces this attitude to formative moments of the field in which philosophers relied upon the practice of writing to mediate between the study of “religion,” on the one hand, and “theology,” on the other. In the second part, LaMothe revives the work of theologian, phenomenologist, and historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw for help in interpreting how dancing can serve as a medium of religious experience and expression. In so doing, LaMothe opens new perspectives on the role of bodily being in religious life, and on the place of theology in the study of religion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Moving Between -- Introduction: A Disconcerting Miracle -- Part One. Writing against theology -- Chapter 1 The Rift in Religion René Descartes and Immanuel Kant -- Chapter 2 Recovering Experience -- Chapter 3 Doing the Work of Spirit -- Chapter 4 The Poet and the Dancer -- Conclusion to Part One: Living the Legacy -- Part Two. Reviving van Der Leeuw -- Chapter 5 A Braided Approach to the Study of Religion -- Chapter 6 A Practice of Understanding -- Chapter 7 Understanding Religion and Dance -- Chapter 8 Spinning the Unity of Life Dance as Religion -- Chapter 9 Marking Boundaries Dance against Religion -- Conclusion to Part Two Can Dance Be Religion? -- Chapter 10 Dancing Religion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index