Dance as third space : : interreligious, intercultural, and interdisciplinary debates on dance and religion(s) / / Heike Walz, editor.

• Superior document: Research in Contemporary Religion ; Volume 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Walz, Heike,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Research in contemporary religion ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (421 pages)

"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." --Provided by publisher

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Heike Walz | Introduction -- Part I Dance in Interdisciplinary Approaches -- Heike Walz | Dance as Third Space. Interreligious, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s) in the Perspective of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology -- Stephanie Schroedter | Intertwinements of Music/Sound and Dance/Movement as a "Third Space" -- Kimerer L. LaMothe | Does Your God Dance? The Role of Rhythmic Bodily Movement in Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values -- Part II Dance in the History of Christianity: From the Early Church to World Christianity -- Camille Lepeigneux | The Indictment of Dance by Christian Authors in Late Antiquity. The Example of the Dance of Herodias' Daughter (Mt 14 -- Mk 6) -- Martin Leutzsch | The Dances of the Virgin Mary. Second to Twenty-First Century -- Philip Knäble | Canons &amp -- Choreographies. The Myth of the Medieval Church adverse to Dancing -- Tatjana K. Schnütgen | Dance and Gender in Churches in Germany since the 20th Century. Insights and Conclusions for Church Dance Today -- Nkosinathi Sithole | The Sacred Dance as a Miraculous Practice in Ibandla lamaNazaretha -- Part III Dance in Different Religious Traditions: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives -- Susanne Talabardon | Dance in Hasidic Judaism -- Karin Schlapbach | Dancing with Gods. Dance and Initiation in Ancient Greek Religious Practices -- Shahzad Bashir | Dancing the Islamic Way. Two Famous Sufi Masters -- Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué | Moving with the Sound of the Story. Dance and Religion in West Africa with Special Consideration of the Epe-Ekpe Dances in Togo -- Inga Scharf da Silva | Beyond the Gaps of Archives. Transfer and Transformation of Knowledge in Ritual Dance in Afro-Brazilian Religions -- Part IV Dance in Christian Theologies.

Ángel F. Méndez Montoya | Flesh, Body, and Embodiment: Surplus of Corporeal Becoming. Theology and Dancing Bodies -- Riyako Cecilia Hikota | Dancing to the Rhythm of Analogia Entis. Exploration of Dance as a Christian Theological Category -- Jasmine Suhner | Dancing From Doing Theology to Dancing Theology. Dance-theological Sketches Based on Tango Argentino -- Part V Inter-Dance: Interreligious and Intercultural Dances in the Third Space -- Dominika Hadrysiewicz | In-Between Śiva and Jesus. Indian Classical Dance as a 'Third Space' -- Iris B. Steil | Dancing in Between Religion(s). Homi Bhabha's Concept of Third Space and its Possibilities for Interreligious Encounters -- Raphael Sartorius | The Alchemists' Dream. Dance as a Laboratory for Intercultural Theology? -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects -- Notes on Contributors -- Body.