Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects - Volume II Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

List of contents

Part 1 Assuming Shamanic Roles 1. Consoling the Dead: Sim U¿s¿ng's Puppet Rituals for a Modern Korea 2. Spiritualist Material Performance, Whiteness, and the Animist Other 3. Worth Her Salt: Zombification and Liberation Theology in a Puppet Film 4. The Spirituality of the Mundane Part 2 Communitas Reclaimed 5. The Thing You Can't See: Bread and Puppet Approaches Spirituality 6. Queer Puppet Saint: Nested Intuitions 7. Talking about Lunch with Sonia: A Ritual for Departing by Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company Part 3 Faith in Secular Performance 8. "When the House Is in Ruins": Tadeusz Kantor's Archive as Reliquary and Tabernacle for Cross¿Temporal Performing Objects 9. Children, Birds, Flowers-A Minor Musical: Performance as Prayer 10. Fabricating Tales of Spirit: A Conversation with Jill Joubert 11. Puppets and the Good News Part 4 Staging the Other World 12. Y¿rei and Puppetry in Japanese Ghost Stories: (Mis)perception and Ambiguous Bodies in Kaidan 13. Bardo! by Performers sem Fronteiras: A Reflection on Immateriality in Shadow Theatre Part 5 Complex Sacrality in the Contemporary World 14. Relics, Artifacts, and Bones: Activating Migrancy's Traces Through Performance 15. Restitution and Reawakening or Resurrection: The Return of 26 Royal Objects to Benin 16. Meat Puppets: Death, the Body, and the Museum

About the author

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia.
Tim Cusack is an Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage.

Summary

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tim Cusack (Editor), Claudia Orenstein (Editor), Orenstein Claudia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2024
• EAN: 9780367713799
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71379-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Weight: 640 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, RELIGION / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Spiritualism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Religion: general, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre, puppetry;theatre;performance