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

“…Drawing on interviews with this community, I describe the techniques of sacred and spiritual belly dancers, how these dancers theorize performance, and how the conflicts inherent to patriarchal mind-body dualism are resolved in these practices. My purpose here is twofold: to document an emergent dance tradition and to analyze its meanings in the relevant social context.…”
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An embodied spirituality: perspectives for a bodily pastoral anthropology by J-A. van den Berg

“…As part of a re-described spiritual embodied anthropology, it is claimed that the mind-body dualism is outdated and that the roots of human corporeality are to be rediscovered. …”
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