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Performance Studies

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135652597
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Performance Studies written by Richard Schechner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features: numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints biographies of key thinkers student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion key reading lists for each chapter twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.

Faith in the Land of Make-Believe

Author : Lee Stanley
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310325471
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Land of Make-Believe written by Lee Stanley and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a narrative about a young man destined to accomplish the impossible, more than a chronicle of successful Hollywood writer, producer, and director, Lee Stanley’s unparalleled success that changed not only his life but also the lives of millions of others ... Faith in the Land of Make-Believe is the gritty memoir of someone who was never taught how to be a man, a husband, or a father, and was scared to death somebody would find out. Now an award-winning filmmaker, author Lee Stanley learned early in life never to show a weakness. With a macho facade, womanizing ways, and hair-trigger rage, Stanley became his own worst enemy—an enemy that only Christ could defeat. Faith in the Land of Make-Believe is the powerful and brutally honest story of a man who learned how to become totally dependent on God. This is a book about passion, determination and a refusal to give up. Most importantly it is about fulfilling your purpose by never backing down, and always standing solely and completely upon the Word of God.

Belief and Make-Believe

Author : George Albert Wells
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812698703
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Belief and Make-Believe written by George Albert Wells and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G.A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe. Professor Wells begins by analyzing the nature of belief. To dispel popular confusions on the relation between words and thoughts, he compares the thinking process of scientists, laymen, and chimpanzees. The power of emotion and instinct to help form people's ideological outlooks is analyzed by preference to "defiance" and "reliance", polar attitudes which arise from the need for dominance and submission in primate groups. Wells shows the influence of defiance and reliance in patriotism and in monotheistic religions, where submission to the will of the omnipotent is a wonderful technique for feeling secure in the face of life's actual and ineradicable dangers. Since the knowledgeable Christians now accept that the Bible is uneven, unreliable, and sometimes morally abhorrent, and that the New Testament account of the origin of Christianity is mostly legend, various attempts have been made to save something from the debris by selective re-interpretation. Wells evaluates several typical examples, showing how the apologists shrink from the clear implications of their arguments, which would demolish the whole edifice of Christian doctrine. Finally, Professor Wells debunks some of the extravagant and mystical claims that have been made for the arts, notably poetry, as quasi-religious vehicles for gaining insights into the human condition.

Unbridled

Author : William Robert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816907
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Unbridled written by William Robert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Unbridled, scholar of religion William Robert uses Peter Shaffer's enigmatic 1973 play Equus, about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think about and teach religion. For Robert, a play like Equus tangles together text, performance, practice, embodiment, and reception. Studying a play involves us in playing different roles, as ourselves and others, and those roles, as well as the imaginative work they require, are critical to the study of religion. By approaching Equus with the reader, Robert transforms standard approaches to the study of religion, engaging with key themes including ritual, sacrifice, worship, power, desire, violence, and sexuality, as well as major thinkers such as Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary theorists such as J. Z. Smith and Judith Butler. As Robert shows, the way themes and theories play out in Equus challenges us to imagine the study of religion anew through open questioning, contrasting perspectives, and alternative modes of interpretation and appreciation"--

Religion as Make-Believe

Author : Neil Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674294920
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Religion as Make-Believe written by Neil Van Leeuwen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of imagination and make-believe. We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary factual beliefs—that believing in the existence of God or of supernatural entities that hear our prayers is akin to believing that May comes before June. Neil Van Leeuwen shows that, in fact, these two forms of belief are strikingly different. Our brains do not process religious beliefs like they do beliefs concerning mundane reality; instead, empirical findings show that religious beliefs function like the imaginings that guide make-believe play. Van Leeuwen argues that religious belief—which he terms religious “credence”—is best understood as a form of imagination that people use to define the identity of their group and express the values they hold sacred. When a person pretends, they navigate the world by consulting two maps: the first represents mundane reality, and the second superimposes the features of the imagined world atop the first. Drawing on psychological, linguistic, and anthropological evidence, Van Leeuwen posits that religious communities operate in much the same way, consulting a factual-belief map that represents ordinary objects and events and a religious-credence map that accords these objects and events imagined sacred and supernatural significance. It is hardly controversial to suggest that religion has a social function, but Religion as Make-Believe breaks new ground by theorizing the underlying cognitive mechanisms. Once we recognize that our minds process factual and religious beliefs in fundamentally different ways, we can gain deeper understanding of the complex individual and group psychology of religious faith.

Belief

Author : James E. Alcock
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633884031
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Belief written by James E. Alcock and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on the psychology of belief examines how our thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, respond not to the world as it actually is but to the world as we believeit to be. This book explores the psychology of belief - how beliefs are formed, how they are influenced both by internal factors, such as perception, memory, reason, emotion, and prior beliefs, as well as external factors, such as experience, identification with a group, social pressure, and manipulation. It also reveals how vulnerable beliefs are to error, and how they can be held with great confidence even when factually false. The author, a social psychologist who specializes in the psychology of belief, elucidates how the brain and nervous system function to create the perceptions, memories, and emotions that shape belief. He explains how and why distorted perceptions, false memories, and inappropriate emotional reactions that sometimes lead us to embrace false beliefs are natural products of mental functioning. He also shows why it is so difficult to change our beliefs when they collide with contradictions. Covering a wide range -- from self-perception and the perceived validity of everyday experience to paranormal, religious, and even fatal beliefs--the book demonstrates how crucial beliefs are to molding our experience and why they have such a powerful hold on our behavior.

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520293991
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply that we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.

The History of Make-Believe

Author : Holly Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520236505
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The History of Make-Believe written by Holly Haynes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The History of Make-Believe, Holly Haynes acutely queries the relationship of historiography, historical reality, and symbolic representations of lived historical processes. This is a serious book, informed by wide reading, and full of startlingly original insights on some of the most prominent and significant themes in Tacitus’s works. Indeed, it deserves close attention by anyone interested in the political and social strategies of high Imperial Rome."—T. Corey Brennan, author of The Praetorship in the Roman Republic "In Tacitus the historical truth is conveyed in literary truth-telling. Instead of leaving the two separated as we do, Holly Haynes shows that Tacitus put them together in what she calls the combination ‘make-believe.’ Her book shines with originality and intelligence while opening the way to Tacitus’s canny wisdom."—Harvey Mansfield, author of Machiavelli's Virtue

Meta Meta Make-belief

Author : Marc McKee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625577085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Meta Meta Make-belief written by Marc McKee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Hi. You probably don't know me, but this blurb is that moment when you're scanning the back of a book, looking for a hook that will lead you inside to something you really need. But then you realize the person who's written the blurb--me--isn't someone you've ever heard of, or they're not the literary flavor of the week, or maybe you genuinely don't like their work. Maybe you genuinely don't like them...Well, this is that moment, and we've both been here before. It's a little uncomfortable, but often that's the case with things that are true. What I'm saying is...I really need you to read this book, because it is in fact something you really need to read. Really. Please..."--Matt Hart "Imagine, if you will, a robot, a little language machine programmed to process hurt--your exact grief--by naming it, until it has no sting. Imagine an elegy for Phillip Seymour Hoffman delivered from the persona of Phil Parma, Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character in Magnolia, over Phillip Seymour Hoffman's body, like a treatise on hearing and healing another human. If you can imagine the antic mix of Ultra-Talk and artifice, a spiral notebook's wide-open ardor, and POV script filled to the brim with 'lust and shame / and real beauty and the feverish, / trembling trust you get from puppies / or babies, anybody truly new,' you need this book more than you think. Simultaneously searing and sensitively tuned, McKee's fourth collection, META META MAKE-BELIEF is both diagnosis and remedy for 'your despair which is always becoming / another version of itself / or bulging into an altogether / altogether else.'"--Marcus Wicker "We live in a world of illusions selling us further illusions. We grow dizzy and sick with it. This book is a tonic and an art and a hair of the dog, making itself true and truly felt."--Kate Nuernberger

Performance Theory

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596517X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Performance Theory written by Richard Schechner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Make Beliefs

Author : William Zimmerman
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Beliefs written by William Zimmerman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagination is a terrible thing to waste, and Bill Zimmerman's Make Beliefs ensures that won't ever happen. With whimsical drawings by popular cartoonist Tom Bloom, this book encourages both young and old to give their imagination a fun workout, offering plenty of space to record responses to leading questions or make drawings right in the book.

The Sanity of Belief

Author : Simon Edwards
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281084904
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Sanity of Belief written by Simon Edwards and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all heard the arguments that Christianity is irrelevant, irrational and even immoral. But what if the Christian faith makes sense of all that matters? In this thoughtful, engaging book, Simon Edwards challenges the assumptions that may lead us to reject a faith and doubt something that we've never really had the chance to understand in the first place. From our need for meaning and significance, to our desires for truth, goodness, love and hope, he explores the things that matter to us as human beings and shows us why the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ might just make sense of them all. The Sanity of Belief is a fresh take on apologetics, faith and doubt, that will leave you with a stronger understanding of Christian belief and how it relates to today's world. It is ideal for anyone looking for a clear, down-to-earth introduction to Christianity, or for those wanting to reaffirm the foundations on which their faith is based.

The Culture of Make Believe

Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603581839
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Make Believe written by Derrick Jensen and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.

Faith in the Land of Make Believe

Author : Lee Stanley
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310325455
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Land of Make Believe written by Lee Stanley and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutally honest memoir of an award-winning filmmaker who dropped his selfish focus on what he could become in Hollywood and learned to become totally dependent on God.

Mimesis as Make-Believe

Author : Kendall L. Walton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268229
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis as Make-Believe written by Kendall L. Walton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations—in visual arts and in fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Kendall Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation, which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Drawing analogies to children’s make believe activities, Walton constructs a theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, and what it means for one work to be more “realistic” than another. He explores the relation between appreciation and criticism, the character of emotional reactions to literary and visual representations, and what it means to be caught up emotionally in imaginary events. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to the thorny philosophical problems of the existence—or ontological standing—of fictitious beings, and the meaning of statements referring to them. And it leads to striking insights concerning imagination, dreams, nonliteral uses of language, and the status of legends and myths. Throughout Walton applies his theoretical perspective to particular cases; his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film. Mimesis as Make-Believe is important reading for everyone interested in the workings of representational art.

The Make-Believe Space

Author : Yael Navaro-Yashin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352044
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Make-Believe Space written by Yael Navaro-Yashin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). This title examines the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people's relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state.

The Ultimate Proof of Creation

Author : Dr. Jason Lisle
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1614580987
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Proof of Creation written by Dr. Jason Lisle and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a bold title: The Ultimate Proof of Creation - But is there such a thing? There are many books that contain seemingly powerful arguments for biblical creation. But is there an ultimate proof of creation? There is an argument for creation that is powerful, conclusive, and has no true rebuttal. As such, it is an irrefutable argument - an "ultimate proof " of the Christian worldview biblical creation. Master the method outlined in the following chapters, and you will be able to defend Christianity against all opposition. Learn how to apply the ultimate proof in dialogues with evolutionists, how to spot logical fallacies, and biblical examples of defending the faith Discover the nature of scientific evidence and its proper role in the origins debate Details how to address theistic evolution, "day age" creationism, and other compromised positions of biblical creationism An exceptional book for pastors, ministry leaders, seminary attendees, and students of religion and philosophy This book is a complete guide to defending the Christian faith, emphasizing the defense of the Genesis account of creation, built on techniques that have been developed over many years and presentations. They are not difficult to apply when you learn how to do it properly. Ready to move beyond the circular arguments? It is time to get to the real heart of the issue and rationally resolve the origins debate. It is time to discover The Ultimate Proof of Creation.