Contents
Introduction
Keynote Address: “The Blessed Assurance of Perhaps” - Tom F. Driver
Transferring Belief: The Stage Presence of the Spiritual Meme - Cohen Ambrose
Ritual Performance and Spirituality in the Work of The Living Theatre, Past and Present - David Callaghan
Top Brass: Theatricality, Themes, and Theology in James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones - Gregory S. Carr
Pretty’s Got Me All Bent Out of Shape: Jordan Harrison’s Act a Lady and the Ritual of Queerness - Matt DiCintio
Clash with the Vikings: Gerpla and the Struggle for National Identity in Iceland - Steve Earne
Heaven and Earth: Confession as Performance in Hamlet and Measure for Measure - Jennifer Flaherty
Treasure in Clay Jars: Christian Liturgical Dramain Theory and Praxis - Charles A. Gillespie, Justin Kosec, and Kate Stratton
Between Piety and Sacrilege: Muslim Theatre and Performance - Thomas King
Cave Rituals and the Brain’s Theatre - Mark Pizzato
Excerpts from “The Book of My Awkward Perspective” - William Doan
Contributors
