Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere.
Keywords
HistorySocial HistoryPerforming ArtsDanceSocial ScienceSociology of ReligionTheaterSociology
2013Book
Author(s)C. Chambers, J. Edelman, S. du Toit, Simon du Toit
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies (Culture and Religion in International Relations)