Performing Religion

Dear Colleagues,

What might “performing religion” mean?  What might it look like, embodied?  What might count as “performing religion”?  What performative effects might “performing religion” have?  How might “performing religion,” and/or performances of religion, figure—or refigure—religion as performance?  How might thinking these terms together, “religion” and “performance,” change the ways we imagine—or reimagine—each of them?  How might thinking these terms together change the ways we imagine—or reimagine—corporeality and relationality?

This Special Issue seeks to explore these and related questions, about “performing religion.”  It seeks to cast “religion” and “performance” as broadly as possible and it seeks cross-disciplinary engagements with religious studies, performance studies, and studies from other disciplinary locations, examining all kinds of cultural forms. These forms might include theatre, performance art, storytelling, spoken-word poetry, dance, music, ritual, and liturgy.  They might include other things, too.  Contributors might study these forms theoretically, historically, ethnographically, textually, theatrically, visually, orally, aurally, kinetically (among other possibilities).

Prof. Dr. William Robert
Guest Editor

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• religion
• performance
• reimagining
• corporeality
• relations