Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance.

Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other, has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybrid-theater performances that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367487527
• ISBN13: 9780367487522
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"