Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27287-3 (ISBN)
The book shows why seemingly leisure time activities such as Gaga form fruitful research objects to an academic study of religion and opens up research on neo-spiritual practices. In understanding the sensory effect of practice and its cultural and social implications, the book follows an Aesthetics of Religion approach. It departs from the idea that cognition is embodied and that the body is thus central to understanding cultural and social phenomena. Drawing upon a wide array of data gathered in the context of Gaga at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, the book weaves together different methods of discourse, ritual, movement, body knowledge, and narrative analysis, while acknowledging insights from neuroscience and cognitive science.
Lina Aschenbrenner is a postdoctoral researcher and dance artist based in Germany.
List of Figures and Tables
Lists
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Interlude: A Body-Focused Research Method
Part I. Gaga class—Aesthetics in Creation
1. Influential Culturescape
2. Ritual Environment Shaping Enactment
3. Body Topography in Discussion
4. The Power of Instructions
5. Transformation in Movement
PART II. Gaga Participants—Aesthetics Perceived
6. Narrating Body Knowledge
7. The Wow of Gaga
8. Gaga’s Therapeutic Impact
9. Goes Worldview
10. Concluding Thoughts
Notes
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.12.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-27287-6 / 1350272876 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-27287-3 / 9781350272873 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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