Aspects Of Performance In Faith Settings

Author : Andrey Rosowsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152752406X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings written by Andrey Rosowsky and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of performance in faith practices? How is performance understood in and across a range of faith settings? How are performance and faith conceptualised through different academic disciplines? This collection of essays addresses these questions, and others, as it explores the complex relationship present in the nexus between faith and performance. A naturally inter-disciplinary work, this book contains contributions from a diverse group of scholars representing a wide range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives. As sociolinguists explore how language performance shapes and is shaped by faith, social anthropologists and psychologists examine how identity performance is crucial in negotiating faith identities, and scholars from theatre and performance studies engage with ways material settings are performatively transfigured to create sacred spaces (to mention but a few approaches covered in this book), the reader is taken on a journey of the world’s faiths and their diverse practices.

Author : Rajeshwari Vijay Pandharipande
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788926684
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion written by Rajeshwari Vijay Pandharipande and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the question ‘What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?’ The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda and discuss the impact of context, ideology, identity and education on the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and some religions closely associated with China such as Confucianism and Taoism, and their respective languages and varieties of language in these regions. The languages discussed by the writers in this volume include Arabic, English, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamazight and Yoruba.

Author : Stephen Pihlaja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108876188
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Religious Discourse written by Stephen Pihlaja and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language plays a key role in religion, framing how people describe spiritual experience and giving structure to religious beliefs and practices. Bringing together work from a team of world-renowned scholars, this volume introduces contemporary research on religious discourse from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It introduces methods for analysis of a range of different kinds of text and talk, including institutional discourse within organised religions, discourse around spirituality and spiritual experience within religious communities, media discourse about the role of religion and spirituality in society, translations of sacred texts, political discourse, and ritual language. Engaging and easy-to-read, it is accessible to researchers across linguistics, religious studies, and other related disciplines. A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, it will become a key resource in the emerging inter-disciplinary field of language and religion.

Author : David Bellamy Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Performance Guide written by David Bellamy Baker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Pattison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082642659X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith of the Managers written by Stephen Pattison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Stephen Pattison, managers have become the cultural heroes of our time. In this book, he examines some of the values, assumptions, beliefs and practices they embrace. Managerialism, he argues, is a form of religious faith, and he criticizes the utopianism of those whom managers look upon as gurus.He suggests that managers should apply to their faith some of the critical spirit that theologians have applied to religious belief. His book will be of interest to all who want more from management than manipulative technique and incomprehensible jargon.

Author : Marzanna Poplawska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429996292
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Faith written by Marzanna Poplawska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of music inculturation in Indonesia. It shows how religious expression can be made relevant in an indigenous context and how grassroots Christianity is being realized by means of music. Through the discussion of indigenous expressions of Christianity, the book presents multiple ways in which Indonesians reiterate their identity through music by creatively forging Christian and indigenous elements. This study moves beyond the discussion (and charge) of syncretism, showing that the inclusion of local cultural manifestations is an answer to creating a truly indigenous Christian expression. Marzanna Poplawska, while telling the story of Indonesian Christians and the multiple ways in which they live Christianity through music, emphasizes the creative energy and agency of local people. In their practices she finds optimism for the continuing existence of many traditional genres and styles. Indonesian Christians perform their Christian faith through music, dance, and theater, generating innovative cultural products that enrich the global Christian heritage. The book is addressed to a broad spectrum of readers: scholars from a variety of disciplines – music, religion, anthropology, especially those interested in interactions between Christianity and indigenous cultures; general music lovers and World Music enthusiasts eager to discover musics outside of European realm; as well as Christian believers, church musicians, and choir directors curious to learn about Christian music beyond Euro-American context. Students of religion, sacred music, (ethno)musicology, theater, and dance will also benefit from learning about a variety of indigenous arts employed in Christian churches in Indonesia.

Author : Lance Gharavi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136483403
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Theatre, and Performance written by Lance Gharavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world’s most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative engagement from those within the fields of theatre and performance is one of the guiding principles of this volume. This collection features a diverse set of perspectives, written by some of the top scholars in the relevant fields, on the many modern intersections of religion with theatre and performance. Contributors argue that religion can no longer be conceived of as a cultural phenomenon that is safely sequestered in the "private sphere." It is instead an explicitly public force that stimulates and complicates public actions, and thus a crucial component of much performance. From mystic theologies of acting to the neuroscience of spirituality in rituals to the performance of secularism, these essays address a broad variety of religious traditions, sharing a common conception of religion as a crucial object of discourse—one that is formed by, and significantly formative of, performance.

Author : Andrey Rosowsky
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783099291
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces written by Andrey Rosowsky and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shares the results of research conducted within and across the complex nexus of language, religion and new technologies. It identifies the dynamic and mobile ways religious practice and language interact online to modify, confirm, transform and consolidate linguistic resources and repertoires. It makes a significant contribution to work in the emerging sub-discipline of the sociology of language and religion and adds to the growing work on digital religion. It also showcases leading and ground-breaking researchers working on online and offline examples of the complex relationships evinced by the study of language and religion. The chapter authors explore a wide range of religions, technologies and languages in order to provide an innovative insight into the overlap between the study of language and religion and language and technology.

Author : David Lynn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310668735
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 52 Discussions to Confirm the Faith of Your Teenagers written by David Lynn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-12-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're tired of the Christianese answers you're getting from the teens in your youth group, challenge them to discuss issues of faith and discover what they believe. With these one-page, reproducible handouts that are easy to use and can facilitate meaningful discussions in your youth group, Sunday school, small group, or confirmation class, teens will explore God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, salvation, discipleship, and more.

Author : Domenico Pietropaolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350064130
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of the Christian Imagination written by Domenico Pietropaolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church's semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemption. The book includes a chapter detailing the theory of signs, based on a close reading of primary sources, and has nine further chapters on the meaning-making inherent in ideas of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. These are filtered through and given material representation by the semiotic paradigms of various cultural fields, including philology, verbal arts and science. Central to this practice - and to the book's message - are two themes of theological semiotics fundamental to man's understanding of himself in the larger scheme of things. Two of these include the theology of the Fall and a sacramental theory of signs. The theory is grounded in the doctrine of analogy, and this is the only reliable cognitive link between the immanence of the thinking subject and the transcendence that is the object of thought.