Sentence examples for religious theater from inspiring English sources

Theirs was an art of religious theater.

"I was taught in school that the Greeks had a religious theater that transformed people spiritually through catharsis," Ms. Bates said.

As Daniel Mark Epstein notes in his engrossing biography, she used "the American revival meeting's dramatic structure to create a fluid form of religious theater that resembled, in all but content, a musical comedy".

Broadway has specialized in its own lavish brand of religious theater lately: last season we were treated to another unheavenly hootenanny about an evangelical preacher, "Leap of Faith," along with revivals of "Godspell" and "Jesus Christ Superstar".

It's not an insult either to call religious practice theater in my opinion, it elevates it.

"We were religious about serious theater," he said.

One enters any of these provinces, such as those of phantasms, dreams, the theater, religious experience, or theoretical contemplation, by undergoing different types of epoché, analogous to the phenomenological protoype, as when one slips into a daydream, falls asleep, watches theater curtains open, commences a ritual, or assumes the scientist's role.

A small township also provided a place for simple schooling, news and gossip, matchmaking, religious festivals, traveling theater groups, tax collection, and bases of famine relief distribution.

Kantrowitz is particularly alarmed by the number of students overborrowing to pay for an undergraduate degree in fields that historically don't pay well -- majors, for instance, like theater, religious studies or art history.

They do so again by calling a gallery of Baroque religious painting "Art as Theater".

Performances had started to smack of religious ritual and Orientalist theater, elements of which remain active in Ms. Abramovic's performances since she resumed her solo career.