The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therap…
'The Miriam Tradition' works from the premise that religious values form in & through movement, with ritual & dance developing patterns for enacting those values.
The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enacting those values. Cia Sautter considers the case of Sephardic Jewish women who, following in the tradition of Miriam the prophet, pe…
"Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies seeks to develop the conceptual resources that would enable, within the Western tradition, a serious intellectual discussion of the relation between dance and religion. Kimerer LaMothe, herself an accomplished dance…
"Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies seeks to develop the conceptual resources that would enable, within the Western tradition, a serious intellectual discussion of the relation between dance and religion. Kimerer LaMothe, herself an accomplished dance…
This title offers philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship - the study of religion and dance. LaMothe opens different perspectives on the role of bodily being in religious life, and on the place of theology in the study of religion.
