{"product_id":"spiritual-herstories-call-of-the-soul-in-dance-research-9781789380828","title":"Spiritual Herstories: Call of the Soul in Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, somatics and women-centred dance research. Written by women dance scholars in higher education, this evocative and illuminating work highlights a growing discourse on gendered leadership in dance research. \u003cem\u003eSpiritual Herstories\u003c\/em\u003e provides new pathways and innovative research methods that respond to the educational needs of women emerging in male-centric socio-historic research traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This is an important publication for advancing research in dance and reinforcing the scholarly lens, giving voice to the body, mind, and soul as partners in exploration. The preface, “Dancing Incantations” by Celeste Snowber, beautifully sets up the reader’s adventure: “Be prepared to let this anthology sit with you for a long time. Each chapter stands alone in its beauty, depth and breadth of knowledge; it is truly a transdisciplinary conversation, which draws you back over and over again to nourish your whole being” (ix).'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Adrienne M. Wilson, Journal of Dance Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'[The] many facets of this transdisciplinary and intersectional collection are also marked by a great variety of perspectives and backgrounds of the authors, which allows this volume to become a celebration of diversity and interdisciplinarity. As such, Spiritual Herstories offers a kaleidoscope of experiences that shed light on embodied understandings and sensuous research whilst illuminating both academic insights and ‘bodysights’.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book speaks to calls for writing differently and the writing of narratives centred around the body to explore the ‘bodiliness’ and emotions of academic work and writing (Essén and Värlander, 2012). This type of writing renders embodied research a feminist project in its explorations against the grain of masculine hegemonic practices in academic scholarship (Boncori and Smith, 2019). [...] These contributions, pollinated by photographs and changes to the text in terms of form, register and tone, are joyful and inspiring, even when addressing marginalisation and limits imposed by patriarchal structures. The reader is ‘moved’ both through an intellectual dance across interdisciplinary perspectives, and via narratives that value affect, embodiment and personal herstories. The narratives, experiments and explorations presented in the chapters are an invitation to seek embodiment and spirituality away from distinctions between psyche and soma, in an attempt to free creativity, knowledge and the sense from unnecessary inhibitions. More importantly, this edited book advocates the importance of daring to step away from traditional ‘scientific’ research in pursue of scholarship that highlights the value and centrality of affect, intuition, embodiment and spirituality in the processes of research development and knowledge creation.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ilaria Boncori, Journal of Management, Spirituality \u0026amp; Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Dancing Incantations –\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eCeleste Snowber\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction – \u003c\/strong\u003eAmanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart One: Patriarchal Critique and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpiritual Feminist Perspectives – \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmanda Williamson \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1: Woman, body, earth and spirit – Linda Hartley \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2: Informed by the Goddess – Jane Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3: Until The Lions – Jayne Stevens\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4: Symbols of the Goddess in Balkan Women’s Dance – Laura Shannon\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5: Spirals and circles – Amanda Williamson\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6: Soul loss and retrieval – Eline Kieft \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7: Reclaiming our innate vitality – Caroline Frizell\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Two: Somatic Ethnography, Diasporic Spiritualities and Postcolonial Voices – Barbara Sellers-Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8: Dancing bodies and ritual spaces – Yvonne Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9: ‘Niimikaage’ into the twenty-first century – Sandra Laronde and Elaine Keillor\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10: Unearthing the presence of African women dancers in Nyanza province, 1900–40 – Seonagh Kummer \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11: Love Poems to God – Veta Goler\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12: Dancing the Four Directions – Rosalie Jones\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13: Souls, soil and soma – Ojeya Cruz Banks and Miriam Marler\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14: Dancing through myself – Barbara Sellers-Young\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Three: Spiritual Journeys in Dance Research – \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15: Writing Why We Dance – Kimerer L. LaMothe \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16: Mystery, magic and the mundane – Celeste Snowber\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17: Creativity as medicine – Janet Lynn Roseman\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18: Dancing evolutionary spirituality – Cheryl Pallant\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19: Attunement and evanescence – Sondra Fraleigh\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20: Awakening the spirit through dance, somatics and Scaravelli Yoga – Sara Reed\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21: Spirituality in Aurelia Baumgartner’s Tanzphilosophie – Aurelia Baumgartner and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042572566871,"sku":"9781789380828","price":118.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789380828.jpg?v=1750954697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spiritual-herstories-call-of-the-soul-in-dance-research-9781789380828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}