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{"title":"What Happens When We Don’t Listen to Birds: Augury in Ancient Greek Drama","authors":"Heather Kelley","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay examines the practice and theatrical representation of augury, or divination by birds, in ancient Greece. It analyzes depictions of augury in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Sophocles’s Theban cycle, and Aristophanes’s The Birds, among other plays, and asserts that birds’ unique relationship with—and close proximity to—the gods afford them meaningful insights that humans would do well to heed. The work ultimately invites contemporary readers to see value in the messages gleaned from birds’ flight, sounds, and movements, and argues that humans who discredit and dismiss the knowledge of birds often face catastrophic outcomes, as demonstrated by so many of the characters in these plays.","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49461197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"David Mason","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.v","url":null,"abstract":"As I write these words, I am in a bar in the middle of New Delhi, India. There’s chicken pakora on the plate at my elbow. Some shock-green, mint chutney in a little bowl. There’s cricket on the TV. Sachin Tendulkar is waving at the camera from his retired place in the stands. The major metro stop from which I disembarked a half hour back is at Rajiv Chowk, named for one of India’s prime ministers, who was assassinated in 1991. Just outside, I spent several minutes listening to a man who identified himself as Bhagat Singh explain how his shop helps regional craftspersons.1 At this moment, the bar’s soundtrack is Maren Morris’s “My Church.”“Can I get a hallelujah?” Morris wails.I don’t know this song. I’m not a country music fan. The “hallelujah” and “amen” in the chorus caught my attention, in this space where I would expect “Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast” or “Mundian To Bach Ke.” Almost as quickly as I realize what I’m hearing, I don’t mind saying, I find myself a little choked up. Just a little.Some of the lyrics from Morris’s tune, for those who, like me, don’t know them:Can I get a hallelujah?Can I get an amen?Feels like the Holy Ghost running through yaWhen I play the highway FMI find my soul revivalSinging every single verseYeah, I guess that’s my church2I’ve invested at least half a career, at this point, in studying the ways in which religion emerges and flows through circumstances and still the irruption of religion can strike me as marvelously strange. Morris finds it, her song says, in music from her car stereo. As she courses down the road, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams sanctify her moment, charge it with a quality that her words can’t avoid casting as religious. It’s “holy redemption,” she says, or, rather, sings—the styled noise coming out of her car’s speakers and the call to sing with it that she can’t resist.I’m at the very, very end of eight months in northern India. Four days from the moment of this sentence’s composition, I will get on a Korean Air flight for the USA via Seoul. Assuming that the legendary fog that falls on Delhi in January is light enough that the plane can take off, I’ll be back in the USA the day after that. Presumably, I’ve been doing research, these many months. I have a research topic, certainly. And I had some research plans. But plans are contingent on what fog will allow.A few months back, I was on a beach in Mumbai as giant Ganesha figures were carried into the water, pushed way out to sea, and swamped. I was on Chandni Chowk in a dense crowd of thousands of others on India’s Independence Day. I walked alongside an all-day Rath Yatra procession through Ahmedabad and I jostled with the dense crowd carrying taziyeh up into Jor Bagh Karbala in Delhi. I watched days of Ramlila performances, one daily episode after another, at several different locations in Delhi and in Varanasi, and I crashed a few Durga Pujas in Chittaranjan Park. I was present for a stupendous, noisy abhishek in Vrindavan. I saw a cosplay ","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135382058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Human Quest for Meaning: Theatre as a Vehicle for Dialogue","authors":"Tyrone Grima, C. Colombo","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “The Human Quest for Meaning” is a critical analysis of a theatre project and its post-performance webinars held to discuss the thematic of the production. The theoretical framework of this project investigates in a qualitative manner to what extent a performance can serve as a medium to facilitate dialogue on existentialist issues. The article juxtaposes this study against a literature review embedded in the Christian and non-Christian framework of existentialist philosophy. It proceeds by elucidating further on the methodology endorsed. Taking as a basis the production Agnes of God, the aim was to create a platform of dialogue between theists and atheists. This objective is studied through interviews and questionnaires held with the actors, the academics who gave keynote speeches in two webinars, and the audience members. The insights allowed the researchers to delve deeper into the question that this project is asking through an in-depth analysis.","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45722517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ramlila of Kheriya: A Conversation with Molly Kaushal","authors":"David Mason","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46956492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Long Goodbye","authors":"C. Sundt","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49022552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unmasterful Spirituality: Challenging Ancestor Worship","authors":"Kristýna Ilek","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay explores the spiritual and performative practice of ancestor worship as revisited by Czech-Vietnamese queer artist Lê Thị Hoài. The essay unpacks the power dynamics at stake in Lê Thị’s practice and introduces spirituality as a challenge to established power hierarchies. Lê Thị’s artistic work is inspired by her experience of the entanglements, complexities, and conflicts that her heritage—personal, cultural, social, and political—brings to her. The essay draws on Julietta Singh’s rethinking of “mastery” to interpret Lê Thị’s work as “unmasterful.” It looks at the symbolism, form, material, and function in Lê Thị’s work and juxtaposes the contradictory political, social, and economic beliefs that she strives to overcome. The author argues that the subversiveness of performative revision of traditional rituals is constituted through not only challenging an established system of values but also bringing to the forefront the ambiguity between the politics of private and public spaces and understanding spiritual force as an equal element in the art piece.","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43488750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alias Grace; Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture; Abortion Politics; Mothering Rhetorics","authors":"Natalie McCabe","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.16.1.0083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43292384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking Up With Jesus","authors":"Elaine Schnabel","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.15.2.0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.15.2.0187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45006724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo","authors":"Y. Fukushima","doi":"10.4324/9780203701836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203701836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43102330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Antonin Artaud","authors":"Alyssa Barrack","doi":"10.5325/ecumenica.15.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.15.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29827,"journal":{"name":"Ecumenica-Performance and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48197961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}