At the Still Point: The Heart of Conversion
Though religion and performance are often considered together in ritual and liturgy, they may join in other contexts as well. This paper explores the "still point" described in the poet T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as playing a role not only in poetry and dance, but equally in moments o...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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| In: |
Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B T.S. Eliot B Dance B Religion B Adrian Howells B stillness B Conversion B Elijah |
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| Summary: | Though religion and performance are often considered together in ritual and liturgy, they may join in other contexts as well. This paper explores the "still point" described in the poet T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as playing a role not only in poetry and dance, but equally in moments of religious conversion. Three such moments are explored, framed by theoretical considerations of dance, conversion, and attentiveness to the "here" and "now" in both. These points of space and time are the objects of an intense focus that creates a center to the experience and thus the possibility of the conversionary turn. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel10040249 |