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Sacred to Profane - Writings on Worship and Performance (Paperback)
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Sacred to Profane - Writings on Worship and Performance (Paperback)
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These essays explore the intricate connections between worship and
performance, the sacred and the profane. In the process they
challenge the common assumptions about worship as being simply
about religious feeling, and open up the multifaceted possibilities
of complex layering and overlapping that make any public act of
worship simultaneously an act of socio-historical practice. Thus,
the legendary Ramlila of Ramnagar in Varanasi, which engages the
entire community both as performers and as audience, becomes an
exploratory site to understand the connections between
socio-economic factors and religious devotion. Or the commissioned
street performances of the sacred tale of Mother Sitala, Goddess of
the Pox, in Calcutta's by-lanes, are studied to see how
professional performers don the mantle of the goddess in order to
woo an audience. Or, in another register, the popular
nineteenth-century Bengali mystic and sage Bamakshyapa, is seen to
deploy performative tactics in the service of spirituality. The
contributors include Richard Schechner, Sumanta Banerjee, Hanne de
Bruin, Anuradha Kapur, and Anjum Katyal.
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