Faith, Politics, and Performance
Fall 2012
Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark
Editorial: The Problem of Religion and Theatre (It’s Not What You Think)
Peter Civetta, Guest Editor
Peter Civetta, Guest Editor
Feature: “Holier than Thou:” Religion as Teaching Tool in the Rhetoric of Secularism, and the Case of Osama bin Laden’s Burial at Sea
Claire Maria Chambers
Feature: Fully Jewish and Fully American: Mordecai Manuel Noah and Edmund Kean’s Sympathetic Shylock
Tamara Smith
Feature: “The Cross is My Statue of Liberty:” Performing Christian Nationalism at the 2011 National Quartet Convention
Vivia Kay Kieswetter
Vivia Kay Kieswetter
Feature: Performance and Preaching Justice
Guillermo Márquez-Sterling
Guillermo Márquez-Sterling
Profile: Pussy Riot’s “Punk Prayer” and National Controversy
Julia Listengarten
Profile: Fifty Years of Der Stellvertreter: Ein Christliches Traverspiel
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Profile: Nedjelko Fabrio’s The Reformers
Kyle A. Thomas
Highlight: Excerpt from Spark
Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich
Book & Performance Reviews:
- Heather Beasley-The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Barack Obama) & No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (Mitt Romney)
- Kyle Owenby-Reinhold Niebuhr: On Politics, Religion, and Christian Faith, Richard Crouter
- Jocelyn L. Buckner-The Best Man, Gerald Schoenfield Theatre, New York, NY
- Richard St. Peter-Korjen in Synagogue/Uran, Prague, Czech Republic
- Less Hunter-Medieval Play, Signature Theatre, New York, NY