256 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the rich intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. The co-constitutive identity-building work of music, performance, and drama for Samoan and Sudanese youth in church contexts has given rise to new considerations of diversity, cultural identity and the religious practices and rituals that inform them. For these young people, their... Read more
Introduction: About This Book
Section 1: Samoan Mediascapes and Faith-as-Performance
Section 1 Overview
1. Education and the Creative Imaginary
2. God Culture and the Capacity to In/Aspire
3. Semblance and Praisesong
Section 2: Religion, Art and a South Sudanese Post-National Imaginary
Section 2 Overview
4. Imagining New Individualities / New Collectivities
5. The Art of Gender in South Sudanese Mediated Diasporas
6. Meaning and "Madolescence"
Conclusion
Biography
Anne M. Harris is Senior Lecturer at Monash University, and researches in the areas of creativity, performance and diversity.
