Between Dancing and Writing : The Practice of Religious Studies / Kimerer L. LaMothe.
LaMothe, Kimerer L., author.; Hegel, G. W. F., contributor.; Kierkegaard, Søren, contributor.; Leeuw, Gerardus van der, contributor.; Schleiermacher, Friedrich, contributor.
2022
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Title Between Dancing and Writing : The Practice of Religious Studies / Kimerer L. LaMothe.
Author LaMothe, Kimerer L., author.
ISBN 9780823291045
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291045
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (288 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823291045 doi
Summary This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. In close readings of Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, LaMothe traces this attitude to formative moments of the field in which philosophers relied upon the practice of writing to mediate between the study of "religion," on the one hand, and "theology," on the other. In the second part, LaMothe revives the work of theologian, phenomenologist, and historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw for help in interpreting how dancing can serve as a medium of religious experience and expression. In so doing, LaMothe opens new perspectives on the role of bodily being in religious life, and on the place of theology in the study of religion.
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Added Author Hegel, G. W. F., contributor.
Kierkegaard, Søren, contributor.
Leeuw, Gerardus van der, contributor.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Moving Between
Introduction: A Disconcerting Miracle
Part One. Writing against theology
Chapter 1 The Rift in Religion René Descartes and Immanuel Kant
Chapter 2 Recovering Experience
Chapter 3 Doing the Work of Spirit
Chapter 4 The Poet and the Dancer
Conclusion to Part One: Living the Legacy
Part Two. Reviving van Der Leeuw
Chapter 5 A Braided Approach to the Study of Religion
Chapter 6 A Practice of Understanding
Chapter 7 Understanding Religion and Dance
Chapter 8 Spinning the Unity of Life Dance as Religion
Chapter 9 Marking Boundaries Dance against Religion
Conclusion to Part Two Can Dance Be Religion?
Chapter 10 Dancing Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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