Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823224036)

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 religio

Author: Kimerer L. Lamothe
ISBN-10: 0823224031
ISBN-13: 9780823224036
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.42w x 0.94d