Introduction; 1 The Problem 2 The Big Nothing 3 The Present Body 4 (Un)Doing the Self 5 Playing 6 Playing Audiences Conclusion
Biography
David Mason is Editor-in-Chief for Ecumenica: Performance and Religion, the South Asia area editor for Asian Theatre Journal, and has been a board member of the Association for Asian Performance. His scholarship on religion and the arts appears in multiple books and journals.
"The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre engages with a number of debates of interest to devotees of religion and theatre. While it feels like an introductory course, the book is not basic. This slim and sophisticated volume presumes at least a passing familiarity with many of its references, but provides enough orientation to encourage the excited reader to go and learn more [...] Mason neither risks a philosophical theologian’s conclusions nor identifies the performative ground of religion and theatre as a symbol of “that which we call god.” But, as for the theatre critic, the feeling of being left wanting more is both a desire to restage the play and a compliment."
- Charles A. Gillespie, University of Virginia, Reading Religion
