The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781138704411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

David 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.