ISBN:
9781350272903
,
9781350272897
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
793.3195694
Keywords:
Dance
;
Dance Philosophy
;
Philosophy of mind
;
Aesthetics
;
Aesthetics Religious aspects
;
Religion and culture
;
Humanist & secular alternatives to religion
;
Philosophy: aesthetics
;
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
;
Israel Religion
Abstract:
"Tracing embodied transformation in the context of the neo-spiritual Israeli dance improvisation practice Gaga, this book demystifies what the author coins as the "Gaga effect" -- the embodied effect of Gaga on its participants. She takes the reader on an analytical journey through a Gaga class, outlining the effective aesthetics of environment and movement. The author distinguishes a threefold effect of Gaga practice -- from a momentary extraordinary experience, to a lasting therapeutic effect, and finally Gaga's worldview potential. The book shows why seemingly leisure time activities such as Gaga form indeed justified and fruitful research objects to an academic study-of-religion and opens up research on neo-spiritual practices. In understanding the sensory effect of practice and its cultural and social implications, the book follows an Aesthetics of Religion approach, departing from the idea that cognition is embodied and that the body is thus central to understanding cultural and social phenomena. Weaving together different methods of ritual, movement, discourse, and narrative analysis, while acknowledging insights from neuroscience and cognitive science, the book applies a multi-methodical approach to studying the triad of body, practice, and effect. It emphasises and depicts the relationship between language and embodied experience and draws upon a wide array of data gathered in the context of Gaga at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, as well as a vivid description of Gaga practice, Gaga's aesthetics and its embodied effect."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- 1. Introduction: The "Gaga effect" -- Part I: Gaga class -- aesthetics for the win. 2. Influential "culture-scape" ; 3. Ritual environment shaping enactment ; 4. Body topography in discussion ; 5. The power of instructions ; 6. Transformation in movement -- Part II. The Gaga effect -- transformation perceived. 6. Narrating body knowledge ; 7. The wow of Gaga ; 8. Gaga's therapeutic impact ; 9. Gaga goes worldview ; 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350272903
