Open AccessEnlivening Spirits
Author(s) -
Kimerer L. LaMothe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
théologiques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1492-1413
pISSN - 1188-7109
DOI - 10.7202/1055242ar
Subject(s) - dance , revelation , relation (database) , mount , theology , religious studies , art , philosophy , art history , literature , database , computer science , operating system
In the history of dance and Christian theology, the United Society of Believersin the Second Coming of Christ, otherwise known as the Shakers, prove a unique case. Notonly did the Shakers practice dancing for over 140 years as the central, constitutive ritualof a successful separatist religious socialism ; and not only did the Shakers mount abiblically informed theological defense of their dancing practice. The Shakers also elevateddancing alongside the Bible as a privileged medium of divine revelation. This papermobilizes an ecokinetic approach in relation to the first two arcs of Shaker history toargue that the Shakers’ dancing serves as an authorizing source for their theologicalinnovations. Dance is theopraxis.