5Rhythms dance as lived spirituality: women, embodiment, and relational wellbeing
5Rhythms dance has enjoyed a growing uptake in the past decade, alongside rising interest in holistic spirituality. This article reports the first sociology of religion study of 5Rhythms dance as a lived, embodied, and relational practice. It draws on theories of lived religion (McGuire 2008) and ev...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 127-145 |
| Further subjects: | B
Lived Religion
B Spirituality B Wellbeing B Relationality B 5Rhythms dance B Embodiment |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | 5Rhythms dance has enjoyed a growing uptake in the past decade, alongside rising interest in holistic spirituality. This article reports the first sociology of religion study of 5Rhythms dance as a lived, embodied, and relational practice. It draws on theories of lived religion (McGuire 2008) and everyday spirituality (Ammerman 2013a, 2013b) and presents an analysis of women’s experiences of dancing 5Rhythms in Melbourne, Australia. All the female participants recounted how the embodiment of the 5Rhythms creates powerful connections with self, community, and the sacred, enabling expressions of inner strengths, often suppressed in modern patriarchal societies. In addition, the dancers’ ‘bodily becomings’ (LaMotte 2012) were seen to support personal and relational wellbeing. These findings thereby also contribute to challenging prevalent views of contemporary spirituality as individual, capitalist, and private—and the call to take spirituality, and the study of spirituality, more seriously. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2025.2480923 |
