Dance as Third Space

Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)

edited by Heike Walz

Book cover: Dance as Third Space

Extent: 420 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Religious Studies

Series: Research in Contemporary Religion

Series volume number: 32

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2021)

ISBN: 9783525568545

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $68.00

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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.

  • Contributions by Shahzad Bashir
  • Contributions by Amele Ekue
  • Contributions by Dominika Hadrysiewicz
  • Contributions by Riyako Cecilia Hikota
  • Contributions by Philip Knäble
  • Contributions by Kimerer L. LaMothe
  • Contributions by Camille Lepeigneux
  • Contributions by Martin Leutzsch
  • Contributions by Angel Francisco Mendez Montoya
  • Contributions by Raphael Sartorius
  • Contributions by Inga Scharf da Silva
  • Contributions by Karin Schlapbach
  • Contributions by Tatjana K. Schnütgen
  • Contributions by Stephanie Schroedter
  • Contributions by Nkosinathi Sithole
  • Contributions by Iris Steil
  • Contributions by Jasmine Suhner
  • Contributions by Susanne Talabardon
  • Contributions by Heike Walz
  • Edited by Heike Walz