The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780367584863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

David V. Mason

Opis

This study explores the overlap of religion and theatre, especially in the crucial area of experience and personal identity. Reconsidering ideas from ancient Greece, pre-modern India, modern Europe, and the recent century, it argues that religious adherents and theatre audiences are largely, themselves, the mechanisms of their experiences.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1 The Problem  2 The Big Nothing  3 The Present Body  4 (Un)Doing the Self  5 Playing  6 Playing Audiences  Conclusion

O autorze

David Mason is Editor-in-Chief for Ecumenica: Performance and Religion, the South Asia area editor for Asian Theatre Journal, and has been a board member of the Association for Asian Performance. His scholarship on religion and the arts appears in multiple books and journals.