Dancing the Numinous: Sacred and Spiritual Techniques of Contemporary American Belly Dancers

In this paper, I explore how contemporary American practitioners of belly dance (as Middle Eastern dance and its many varieties are often called in the English-speaking world) conceptualize not only the spiritual dimensions of their dance, but also how the very notion of performance affects sacred a...

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Main Author: Jeana Jorgensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
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Online Access:https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/96
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