RLG200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Performance Studies, Literary Theory, Hermeneutics
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Talks about several interrelated themes that are used in understanding certain religious action as performance. Nye is thinking about rituals in society, repetition, transformation, society. Catherine bell says performance allows you to dig a little deeper. The first theme is to do with meaning and the role of performing actions. Action is communicating ideas or is it that action produces, culturally meaningful environments. It"s a particular performance of a religious action. So if you are talking about a particular action like circumbulating a sacred site, or ritual prayer the. This is connected to the first theme human beings are creatures that are creating they"(cid:396)e bringing about something. If a performance is epicaius then there is someone behind that that is bringing it out. The next thing she talks about is that a performance centric on analysis would not be centered on intellectual part of a performance but there will be physical, sensory, the material, emotional
