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The ''Journal of Religion and Theatre'' () is a peer-reviewed online academic journal covering research on the relationship between theatre and religion, including the spirituality of world cultures in all disciplines of the theatre, performance studies in sacred rituals of all cultures, themes of transcendence in text, on stage, in theatre history, and the analysis of dramatic literature. It is abstracted and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Debra Bruch, Associate Professor of Theatre from Michigan Technological University, brought the idea of creating an online journal to the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in August 1999. Dr. Bruch created the journal site and editors in the profession of theatre were gained by August 2000. The first issue was published in 2001. The journal immediately met an international need for scholarship exploring the relationship between religion and theatre. Bruch was General Editor until 2006. Heather Beasley was Assistant Editor from 2004 to 2006 when she took over as General Editor until the Religion and Theatre Focus Group decided to discontinue the journal August 2010. Beasley introduced the Emerging Scholars program and added book and play reviews. The final issue was Fall of 2010. The journal served as a model for others and by 2011 other journals promoting scholarship between religion and theatre were in service for the field. For instance, Ecumenica began as the Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance with its first issue in 2003 and currently examines the relationship between religion/faith/spirituality and theatre/performance. The journal's editors were committed to seeing the worth of different writing styles by scholars as well as different interpretations of the relationship between religion and theatre. For that reason, no attempt was made by the journal to define the relationship between religion and theatre. They were also committed to not only publish the work of scholars affiliated with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, but opened the journal to all scholars in the field. All editors except the General Editor reviewed articles blind. The first issue was housed in the Fine Arts Department at Michigan Technological University. In 2002 it moved to an outside server and was able to connect to a domain name. It then moved to the ATHE server when it was archived. Scholars will be able to access pdf files of all articles from the archive page. Vol. 9, No. 1: Fall 2010 Articles: Michael J. Lueger. Baroque and Classical in Jesuit Theatre. Wade Hollingshaus. Can the Mormon Church Come Out and Play? Negotiating Praxes and Spaces with Cornerstone Theater's Festival of Faith: 21 Theatrical Offerings. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. The Devil is an Ass: Radical Evil Redefined as Ridiculous Evil from the English Renaissance to Contemporary Hollywood. Joshua Polster. Under the Crown: The Royal Protection of Jews in Restoration Politics and Drama. Vol. 8, No. 1: Fall 2009 Articles: Vanessa Baker. “Dancing With Eyes Half Closed”: Ritual Paradox in Dancing at Lughnasa. Donnalee Dox. The Willing Sustenance of Belief: Religiosity and Mode of Performance. Thomas Fish. Sister Aimee's Dutch Swan Song: A Study of the Illustrated Sermon. Robert J. Hubbard. Theatres of Shalom: Community-Based Drama as Kingdom Work. Matt Saltzberg. Sacred Theatre: An Exploration of Suzuki/Viewpoints and Composition in Directing John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God. Book Review: Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s The Rose & The Cross. By Lance Gharavi. Reviewed by J. Lawton Winslade. Play Reviews: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journal of Religion and Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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