‘Gimme de kneebone bent’: Liturgics, Dance, Resistance and a Hermeneutics of the Knees.
Shall we all dance to the Lord? But what Lord? To whose Lord shall we bend our knees in prayer, honour, dance and praise? Can our knees be naked? Can we open our legs? How much skin can we show without apologizing? Are we allowed to get the sensuous fever while dancing a tango, a salsa, or a samba?...
| Publicado en: | Studies in World Christianity Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Edinburgh University Press
2008
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