Implicit Soulfulness: A Dramatic Perspective

The sociological study of religion has established that people do in fact behave in ways which are implicitly religious, without their actually belonging to an explicitly religious organisation of any kind. What remains to be investigated, however, is why they do this. This paper aims to make a cont...

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Published in:Implicit religion
Main Author: Grainger, Roger 1934-2015 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2014]
In: Implicit religion
Further subjects:B Soul music
B Spirituality
B Hunger
B Theatre
B Faustus
B Implicit Religion
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Summary:The sociological study of religion has established that people do in fact behave in ways which are implicitly religious, without their actually belonging to an explicitly religious organisation of any kind. What remains to be investigated, however, is why they do this. This paper aims to make a contribution to such an enquiry by using theatre to argue that these individuals are drawn in the direction of religious belief by the inalienable characteristics of the human soul—particularly its voraciousness and flexibility.
ISSN:1743-1697
Contains:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.v17i1.3