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Religious Dances

Author : E. Louis Backman
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906830021
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Religious Dances written by E. Louis Backman and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Religious Dances' is an account of the origins and history of religious dances and their significance in the Christian church. The author attempts to assess the role which religious dancing has played in the history of medicine and the healing of sickness, and points to disease in cereal plants as one probable cause of dancing epidemics. He pays particular attention to the dancing epidemics of the Middle Ages and he believes that the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin had its origins in one of these epidemics. Heavily illustrated, and packed with dates, facts, and quotations, Religious Dances is a standard work on its subject.

Tibetan Religious Dances

Author : René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027976215
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (762 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Religious Dances by : René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz

Download or read book Tibetan Religious Dances written by René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine

Author : Eugène Louis Backman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine written by Eugène Louis Backman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977-11-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tibetan Sacred Dance

Author : Ellen Pearlman
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892819188
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Sacred Dance by : Ellen Pearlman

Download or read book Tibetan Sacred Dance written by Ellen Pearlman and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time Buddhism entered the mythical land of the snows, Tibetans have expressed their spiritual devotion and celebrated their culture with dance. This book--lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks--is the first to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism.

We Have a Religion

Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807832626
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book We Have a Religion written by Tisa Joy Wenger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act

Dancing Culture Religion

Author : Sam D. Gill
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174738
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Culture Religion written by Sam D. Gill and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative insights into the nature of dancing as inseparable from human vitality and distinctiveness emerge from this spiraling study of specific cultural dance traditions brought into conversation with various philosophical/theoretical perspectives centering on the topics: movement, gesture, play, masking, ritual, seduction, performance, religion; each the subject of engaging innovative analysis. The author draws on experience as dancer and academic to address contemporary issues such as gender identity development and plasticity and acuity throughout the lifespan.

Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion

Author : Steven H. Lonsdale
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion by : Steven H. Lonsdale

Download or read book Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion written by Steven H. Lonsdale and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society. The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances.

Dancing Wisdom

Author : Yvonne Daniel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252072079
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Wisdom written by Yvonne Daniel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances

The Music and Dance of the World's Religions

Author : E. Rust
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033358
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis The Music and Dance of the World's Religions by : E. Rust

Download or read book The Music and Dance of the World's Religions written by E. Rust and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.

Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions

Author : Angela M. Yarber
Publisher : Liturgical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781433115448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions written by Angela M. Yarber and published by Liturgical Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dances that embody the «feminine» teach the dancer and the observers inside and outside the faith tradition about women's experiences, expressions, and understandings within their respective faith traditions. In Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions, the author immerses herself in four dance traditions and explores what their dance teaches about women's experiences in their faith tradition. Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance stemming from the devadasi system; kabuki onnagata are Japanese male enactors of «female-likeness»; the Mevlevi Order of America allows women to train as «whirling dervishes»; and Gurit Kadman created folk dances for Jewish women and men.

A History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance

Author : Kimerer L. LaMothe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390006
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance by : Kimerer L. LaMothe

Download or read book A History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance written by Kimerer L. LaMothe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between religion and dance is as old as humankind. Contemporary methods for studying this relationship date back a century. The difference between these two time frames is significant: scholars are still developing theories and methods capable of illuminating this vast history that take account of their limited place within it. A History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance takes on a primary challenge of doing so: overcoming a conceptual dichotomy between “religion” and “dance” forged in the colonial era that justified western Christian hostility towards dance traditions across six continents over six centuries. Beginning with its enlightenment roots, LaMothe narrates a selective history of this dichotomy, revealing its ongoing work in separating dance studies from religious studies. Turning to the Bushmen of the African Kalahari, LaMothe introduces an ecokinetic approach that provides scholars with conceptual resources for mapping the generative interdependence of phenomena that appear as “dance” and/or “religion.”

Ringleaders of Redemption

Author : Kathryn Dickason
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197527272
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Ringleaders of Redemption written by Kathryn Dickason and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and secular realms, often aligning it with demonic intervention, lust, pride, and sacrilege. Historical sources, however, suggest that medieval dance was a complex and ambivalent phenomenon. During the High and Late Middle Ages, Western theologians, liturgists, and mystics not only tolerated dance; they transformed it into a dynamic component of religious thought and practice. This book investigates how dance became a legitimate form of devotion in Christian culture. Sacred dance functioned to gloss scripture, frame spiritual experience, and imagine the afterlife. Invoking numerous manuscript and visual sources (biblical commentaries, sermons, saints' lives, ecclesiastical statutes, mystical treatises, vernacular literature, and iconography), this book highlights how medieval dance helped shape religious identity and social stratification. Moreover, this book shows the political dimension of dance, which worked in the service of Christendom, conversion, and social cohesion. In Ringleaders of Redemption, Kathryn Dickason reveals a long tradition of sacred dance in Christianity, one that the professionalization and secularization of Renaissance dance obscured, and one that the Reformation silenced and suppressed.

Materializing Religion

Author : William Keenan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919121
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Materializing Religion written by William Keenan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation' of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form. This book explores the lived experience of religion through its material expressions, demonstrating how religion and spirituality are given form and are thus far from being detached or ethereal. Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the contributors register the variety in which religions and religious groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artifacts, dance, dress and magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history, liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.

Dance As Religious Studies

Author : Douglas G. Adams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579106315
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Dance As Religious Studies written by Douglas G. Adams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dance as religious studies" reveals resources for the "art of liturgical dance" in terms of both performance and scholarly interpretation. This collection of methodological essays has been arranged to suggest the wide spectrum and the underlying unity of these diverse and varied approaches to understanding dance as religious studies. Part I concentrates on the relationship between liturgical dance and the scriptural traditions of Judaism and Christianity. Part II indicates the feminist possibilities for liturgical and modern dance. Part III presents a spectrum of the contemporary theory and practice of liturgical dance. The book concludes with a bibliographic survey of sources and resources available to both liturgical dancers and students of dance as religious studies.

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143333
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee written by James Mooney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic of American anthropology explores messianic cult behind Indian resistance, from Pontiac to the 1890s. Extremely detailed and thorough. Originally published in 1896 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 38 plates, 49 other illustrations.

New Approaches to the Study of Religion

Author : Peter Antes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110181753
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to the Study of Religion written by Peter Antes and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Christian Education

Author : George Thomas Kurian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810884933
Total Pages : 1667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christian Education written by George Thomas Kurian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 1667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.