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ESSAYS “Belief Beyond Dishonor: Bhatti, Mirmingham, and Moving on from BehztiThomas A. Oldham “Myth as a Performance: The Journey of the Soul by Lope de Vega and the BiviumMar\u00eda Montesinos Casta\u00f1eda “Spiritual Instability: Reflections on Ambiguity in Performative Spirituality”Donnalee Dox INTERVIEW “Muslim Feminist Drag: Spilling the ‘Chai’ on Diasporic Khwaja Sira ‘Realness’”Trung M. Nguyen and Dharmakrishna Mirza NOTES “Jesus Koothu: A Contemporary Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppet Performance”Rahul Koonathara PERFORMANCE REVIEWS “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window”Joanna Ruth Evans “Between Two Knees”Amna Farooqi “Touch of RED”Catherine (Kayt) MacMaster “YOU ARE GOING TO BE HEALED”Holly Taylor<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
ESSAYS “The Human Quest for Meaning: Theatre as a Vehicle for Dialogue”TYRONE GRIMA and CHRISTIAN COLOMBO “What Happens When We Don’t Listen to Birds: Augury in Ancient Greek Drama”HEATHER KELLEY REPORT “Unmasterful Spirituality: Challenging Ancestor Worship”KRIST\u00ddNA ILEK INTERVIEW “The Ramlila of Kheriya: A Conversation with Molly Kaushal”MOLLY KAUSHAL and DAVID MASON PERFORMANCE REVIEW The Long GoodbyeCATHERINE SUNDT BOOK REVIEW Alias Grace; Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture; Abortion Politics; Mothering RhetoricsNATALIE MCCABE<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
ESSAYS “Cho Ramasamy’s C\u0101ttiram Co\u1e49\u1e49atillai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)“, part twoKRISTEN RUDISILL “The Three Centers: A Framework for Inclusivity in the Acting Classroom”ABIGAIL KILLEEN “Zero Zone Praxis as Conscious Creative Cultivation”TAMUR TOHVER PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Breaking Up With JesusReviewed by ELAINE SCHNABEL ReverieReviewed by BESS ROWEN The Thin PlaceReviewed by LIZ FAIRCHILD BOOK REVIEWS Antonin ArtaudReviewed by ALYSSA BARRACK Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno KazuoReviewed by YOSHIKO FUKUSHIMA God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern AmericaReviewed by ROSEMARIE BANK ———- Access the issue at the Scholarly Publishing Collective<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
PLAY TRANSLATIONCho Ramasamy’s C\u0101ttiram Co\u1e49\u1e49atilai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)KRISTEN RUDISILL ESSAYS“Cerita on Calonarang Dance Drama”KATHY FOLEY AND I NYOMAN SEDANA “Balinese Calonarang in Performance”I NYOMAN CERITA AND KATHY FOLEY INTERVIEW“Ta’ziyeh Close-Up: A Conversation with Moslem Nadalizadeh”BABAK RAHIMI PERFORMANCE REVIEWSLa PastorelaReviewed by JAVIER LUIS HURTADO The Last Christmas (La \u00daltima Navidad)Reviewed by ALIZA MORAN BOOK REVIEWSAztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in MotionReviewed by GUILLERMO AVIL\u00c9S-RODR\u00cdGUEZ The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American EpistemologyReviewed by NEAL HEBERT Performance in the Z\u00f3calo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico’s Central Square from the Colonial Era to the PresentReviewed […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
ESSAYS “Intimations of the Loka in Adhyatmararamayanam Kilipattu.” Malini Murali “Vessel, Messiah, Warrior: Donald Trump in Evangelical Christian Narratives.” Hank Willenbrink INTERVIEW “Shifting the Terms of the Encounter: A Conversation with Playwright Nia Witherspoon about Messiah.” T. Chester PERFORMANCE REVIEWS “Toko Atolia: An Interlude by Bernice Mawutornyo.” Edudzi David Sallah “Sloppy Bonnie: A Roadkill Musical for the Modern Chick by Krista Knight, Barry Brinegar, Leah Lowe.” Jennifer Lauren Shouse BOOK REVIEWS Long Suffering: American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness by Karen Gonzalez Rice Rhona Justice-Malloy Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow by Miriam Haughton Kay Martinovich Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring: Staging Life and […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Co-Edited by Silvia Battista Liverpool Hope University ESSAY “Performing Blackness under Roman Occupation: Embodied Resistance and the Empire (A Thinking Essay)” Christopher-Rasheem McMillan IFTR CONFERENCE ESSAYS “‘Harmony in Diversity’: A Compartmentalist Approach to the Three Teachings in Mulianxi” Xiaohuan Zhao “Embodied Ecumenica; Eco-spirituality: Revised Christian Attitudes Toward the Creation” Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen IFTR RESEARCH\/PRACTICE “A Journey Through Ascentic Practices and Dance: Detachment from Objects in Seven Phases (A Photo Essay)” Argyro Tsampazi “The Invent Your Own Religion Workbook” Michael Dudeck “Sacred Sites and Secular Sounds” Nidya Shanthini Manokara, Nora Samosir, and Lionel Wee IFTR CONFERENCE PAPERS “Traces: Reflections on Practice and […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
The Issue in JSTOR “The Saddest Bubbles: Toward a Theory of Outrage” Lance Gharavi “Christianity on the Taiwanese Traditional Stage: Why ‘Hallelujah’?” Josh Stenberg “On the Stage, But Not of the Stage: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Christian Slave and the Advent of Evangelical Theatre in Antebellum America” Joseph R. D’Ambrosi BOOK REVIEWS Message from the Book Review Editor Alan Sikes Points of Convergence: Alternative Views on Performance by Marta Dziewanska and Andre Lepecki Reviewed by Lisa Bernd Archiving and Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Querr Chicanx Avant-Garde by Robb Hern\u00e1ndez Reviewed by Virginia Anderson The Selected Works of Yussef El […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
The Issue in JSTOR “Queering Zion: Liberalism and Coalitional Care in Mormon Drama” Kristin Perkins “Human Sacrifice, Nuns, and Gender-Bent Kings: The Effect of Religious Change on Gender Presentation in Early Modern Adaptations of Iphegenia among the Taurians “The Liturgy That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Religious Engagement and Affective Memory as a Site of Queer Activism in Musical Theatre” Lusie Cuskey PLAY UnSita Unfinished with Mama Sita Sunita S. Mukhi INTERVIEW Cuir Devotion: A Conversation Joy Brooke Fairfield and Enzo Vasquez Toral (and Penelope Sumac) BOOK REVIEWS Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance Reviewed by […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
“From Religious Rituals to Popular Theatre: Evolution of the Mulian Legend” Shiao-Ling Yu PLAY Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem (English and Arabic) Victoria Rue translated by Hind Abu Shkhadim REPORT Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem Samer Makhlouf BOOK REVIEWS High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture Reviewed by James Padilioni, Jr. Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory Reviewed by Neal Hebert PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Salome Reviewed by Steve Earnest Virtue Reviewed by Catherine Heiner<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Letter from the Editor “The Social Drama of Durga Puja: Performing Bengali Identity in the Diaspora” Arnab Banerji “Act for Your Life: Widows in Vrindavan” Radhica Ganapathy “Advocating for the Rejuvenation of Jatra Performance” Jashodhara Sen INTERVIEW “Rituals and a Need for Forgiveness: An Interview with Rajiv Joseph” Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. REPORT “Dance of the ‘Polluted’: Performance, Religion, and Culture in Thullal” Arundhathi.B BOOK REVIEWS Theatre for Peacebuilding Reviewed by K. Frances Lieder Hinduism and Hindi Theater Reviewed by Macy Jones PERFORMANCE REVIEW Agathi: The Plight of the Refugee Reviewed by Katherine C. Zubko<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Fall 2018 Letter from the Editors Claire Pamment and Hesam Sharifian guest editors “Black Table: Choreographic Interventions in Moroccan Contemporary Dance” Karima Borni “B for Badan, Blessed, and (B)othered: The Counter-Sacred in the Iranian Theatre of War” Marjan Moosavi “Darvag and the Theatre of Iranian Diaspora” Hamid Ehya “Phoenix Rising: The Conference of the Birds” Rachel Bowditch PERFORMANCE REVIEWS “Religion and Representation in the ‘New Brown America’ of Muslim Comedy” Jaclyn Michael “The Annual Children’s Play at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship” Daniella Vinitsky Mooney BOOK REVIEWS Islam and Popular Culture, reviewed by Edward Ziter Arab American Drama, Film, and Performance, […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Letter from the Editor David V. Mason The Religion Virus: An Interview and Meta-Conversation Michael Dudeck and David Mason “The Spectacle of Unseeing: Creation from Nothing in Richard III” Jonathan Wanner “Apocalypse How? The World’s End in Will Eno’s TRAGEDY: a tragedy” Dana Tanner-Kennedy “Racine’s Ancients: Paradoxes of Adaptation in the Panegyric Tradition of French Neoclassicism” Rachel M. E. Wolfe “Hallelujah and Amen: Revival of the Color Purple as African-American Church” Aaron Brown BOOK REVIEWS Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium,\u00a0reviewed by\u00a0Donnalee Dox Ritual, Performance and the Senses, reviewed by Eric Mayer-Garc\u00eda The Theatre of the Occult Revival, reviewed by Michael […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Fall 2017 Letter from the Editor David V. Mason “Sexual Perversity in a Feminist Bible Play: Florence Kiper Frank’s\u00a0Jael” Kari-Anne Innes “An Anthropogenic Upheaval: Edward Bond’s\u00a0Bingo, Shakespeare’s Enclosure, and Terrocentric Identity” Babak Ashrafkhani Limoudehi “The Holy Land Experience: ‘Step Right Up’ to Experience the Crucifixion” Aaron Brown “Sacred Spaces: Experiencing the Supernatural at Lourdes” Kristin O’Malley Performance Note: Missa Leiga Reginaldo Nascimento Book Reviews Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage , reviewed by Joseph D’Ambrosi Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II, reviewed by Andre Johnson New York’s Yiddish Theater: […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Spring 2017 Letter from the Editor David V. Mason “The Many Afterlives of Matt Talbot: Contesting Irish Nationalism in Thomas Kilroy’s Talbot’s Box” Jeff Casey Interview: John Collins David V. Mason Play:\u00a0The Child Who Didn’t Want to Be Born Diana Manole Book Reviews David K. Anderson.\u00a0Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England: Tragedy, Religion, and Violence on Stage David Scott Kastan.\u00a0A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion David Lowenstein and Michael Witmore, eds.\u00a0Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion Media Review Drama Online’s “Globe on Screen” Performance Reviews Jin-hon\u00a0(Republic of Korea) Women of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez\u00a0(USA)<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>