Scholars and experts in anthropology theatricality ethnoscenology dance religious studies
theology history and art have contributed to the inspiring exchange of intellectual inquiry in
this book. It presents the revised lectures and a selection of the revised papers from the
international and interdisciplinary conference Religion Ritual Theatre which took place in
April 2006 at the University of Copenhagen. The aim of the book is to intertwine new theories
with concrete case studies in an empirical and practical manner. Case studies from different
places and various cultures in Europe South Africa the Near East and India demonstrate
noticeable parallels concerning the notions of embodiment and practice. Even though these
upcoming perspectives share a rather redundant vocabulary they nevertheless seem to contribute
to a common ground of a phenomenology of the body of action and perception.
