Performing the secular : religion, representation, and politics /: religion, representation, and politics. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Milija Gluhovic, Jisha Menon, editors.
• Editors: Gluhovic, Milija, 1971-; Menon, Jisha, 1972-
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Performing the Secular: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere ; Performance and Secular Public Spheres; References; Chapter 2 Of Hypocrisy: "Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider'd" ; The Secular and the Sacred: A Question of Performance?; 'Toler(n)ation'; All the World's a Theatre; ReformPerform; References; Chapter 3 Dangerous Images: Theatre and the Transnational Public Sphere ; The Mozart Scandal; Summary; References Chapter 4 Thisworldly Wonderment: Contemporary British Theatre and Postsecularism The Postsecular Context; Paul; Constellations and The Effect; References; Chapter 5 The 'Secular Designs' of Wole Soyinka ; References; Chapter 6 Kamikaze Spectres and Transgenerational Memories in Winds of God ; References; Chapter 7 "Face-to-Face": Open Secularism and the Politics of Display in Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor Commission ; 'Dialogue Makes a Difference': Using Public Dialogue to Rethink the Secular; Reasonable Accommodation and 'Bad Scripts' 'Frank, Open Discussions [...] Tempered by Reason and Civility': Repertoires of Self-abstraction and Embodied ImmediacyOn 'Gobbledygook': Dialogue in Receptions; Open Secularism and Public Dialogue; Conclusions: Expanding Repertoires; References; Chapter 8 Sacred Values and Secular Evangelism in the Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate ; Contextualizing Creation Evangelism; The Science Guy; Debating Debates; Sacred Spheres of Argument; The Debate; Conclusion: Cultural Cognitions and Ocular Democracy; References; Chapter 9 Making the Sacred Public: Women, Performance and Protest in Contemporary Manipur IntroductionThe 'City' Space: The Site of Performance; An Event and Its 'Origins'; Women Walking the 'City'; Public Mourning as Politics; References; Chapter 10 Ever, Again: Psychoanalysis, Secular Time, and the Performance of Witness ; References; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Subjects: 201/.72; Religion and politics; Secularism; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies; RELIGION / Christianity / General; Religion and politics; Secularism; Theater; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Theatre studies; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137496089; 1137496088
• Related ISBNs: 9781137496072
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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