Dance in the Early Church: sources and restrictions

Understanding the role of dance in the Western Christian tradition is an underexplored territory. Sources of historical investigations are few and many of them are problematic. In this article commonly used sources are questioned and a re-examination of earlier research is begun. Focusing on the Ear...

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Auteur principal: Hellsten, Laura (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [publisher not identified] [2016]
Dans: Approaching religion
Année: 2016, Volume: 6, Numéro: 2, Pages: 55-66
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Christianisme primitif / Danse
RelBib Classification:CD Christianisme et culture
KAB Christianisme primitif
Sujets non-standardisés:B Theology
B Espèce
B Early Church
B Dance
B Liturgy
B Patristics
B Christianity
B Church History
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Résumé:Understanding the role of dance in the Western Christian tradition is an underexplored territory. Sources of historical investigations are few and many of them are problematic. In this article commonly used sources are questioned and a re-examination of earlier research is begun. Focusing on the Early Church in dialogue with writing from the patristic period, a new interpretation is done around the theme of dance prohib-ition. The important contributions of Donatella Tronca as well as Graham Pont and Alessandro Alcangeli to the understanding of dance in the Early Church period are expanded by means of a more extensive theological framework. This article also aims at bringing a broader philosophical and societal understanding of the worldview and social imaginary of the Early Church period to bear on earlier research studies.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contient:Enthalten in: Approaching religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30664/ar.67592