Israel as Center Stage: A Setting for Social and Religious Enactments

by Gideon Kressel and A. Paul Hare

After introducing the dramaturgical perspectives by drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, and the theater, the contributors give examples of enactments for which the persons involved were quite conscious of the fact that they must first establish a stage, or action area, before they could perform. As in theater, the setting of the stage has implicit meanings and actions will then become explicit as the drama unfolds. In Part I of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897896963
• ISBN13: 9780897896962
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"