1st Edition
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects Volume II Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths
Part 1 Assuming Shamanic Roles
1. Consoling the Dead: Sim U‑sŏng’s Puppet Rituals for a Modern Korea
Jungmin Song
2. Spiritualist Material Performance, Whiteness, and the Animist Other
Hazel Rickard
3. Worth Her Salt: Zombification and Liberation Theology in a Puppet Film
Paulette Richards
4. The Spirituality of the Mundane
Frank Maugeri
Part 2 Communitas Reclaimed
5. The Thing You Can’t See: Bread and Puppet Approaches Spirituality
John Bell
6. Queer Puppet Saint: Nested Intuitions
Erik Ehn
7. Talking about Lunch with Sonia: A Ritual for Departing by Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber; Introduction: Tim Cusack
Part 3 Faith in Secular Performance
8. "When the House Is in Ruins": Tadeusz Kantor’s Archive as Reliquary and Tabernacle for Cross‑Temporal Performing Objects
Jacob Juntunen
9. Children, Birds, Flowers—A Minor Musical: Performance as Prayer
Katriina Andrianov
10. Fabricating Tales of Spirit: A Conversation with Jill Joubert
Aja Marneweck And Jill Joubert
11. Puppets and the Good News
Edna M. Bland
Part 4 Staging the Other World
12. Yūrei and Puppetry in Japanese Ghost Stories: (Mis)perception and Ambiguous Bodies in Kaidan
Laura Purcell‑Gates
13. Bardo! by Performers sem Fronteiras: A Reflection on Immateriality in Shadow Theatre
Gilson Moraes Motta
Part 5 Complex Sacrality in the Contemporary World
14. Relics, Artifacts, and Bones: Activating Migrancy’s Traces Through Performance
Ana Martínez
15. Restitution & Reawakening or Resurrection: The Return of 26 Royal Objects to Benin
Heather Jeanne Denyer
16. Meat Puppets: Death, the Body, and the Museum
Margaret Werry
Biography
Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia.
Tim Cusack is an Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage.
