The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting

Battista, Silvia and Wilson, Louise Ann and Darby, Kris and Piasecki, Simon and Salonna, Ilaria and Alifuoco, Annalaura and Lewis, Lisa and Smith, Ruth and Adelman, Joshua (2021) The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting. Intellect, UK. ISBN 978-1-78938-387-4

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Abstract

The Performances of Sacred Places: Crosggin, Breathing, Resisting offers a multi-layered and contemporary approach to the question of sacred sites, their practices, politics and ecologies. The overarching critical framework of inquiry is Performance Studies, a multidisciplinary methodological perspective that stresses the importance of investigating the practices and actions through which things are conducted and processes activated. This is an innovative perspective that recognizes the value, function and role that practices and their materialities have in the constitution of special places, their developments in culture, and the politics in place for the conservation of their sense of specialness.

The questions investigated are: what is a sacred place? Is a place inherently sacred or does it become sacred? Is it a paradigm, a real location, an imaginary place, a projected condition, a charged setting, an enhanced perception? What kind of practices and processes allow the emergence of a sacred place in human perception? And what is its function in contemporary societies?

The book is divided into three sections that evidence the three approaches that are generally engaged with and through which sacred places are defined, actualized and activated: Crossing, Breathing and Resisting. There is a strong field of international contributors including practitioners and academics working in the UK, USA, Poland and Australia.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	Performance, the sacred, landscape, labyrinth, pilgrimage, theatre laboratory, introspection, politics, interculturality
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts
Depositing User:	Silvia Battista
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2021 15:41
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2024 11:36
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3418

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