A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing

A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing
Author: John F. Mesick
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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'A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing' is a thought-provoking sermon by John F. Mesick that challenges the belief that dancing is a harmless pastime. He argues that dancing can lead to immoral behavior and sinful thoughts, which can be detrimental to one's spiritual health. Using biblical references and historical examples, Mesick provides a compelling case against dancing and encourages his listeners to resist the temptation to engage in this sinful activity.

Adversaries of Dance

Adversaries of Dance
Author: Ann Louise Wagner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252065903
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Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States. Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of biblical passages," and that the opposition thrived when denominational dogma held greater power over people's lives and when women's social roles were strictly limited. Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status. "There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." --Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Author: Naomi M. Jackson
Publisher: Editoriale Jaca Book
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2008
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780810861497
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Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers--both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts--encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.

Dancing at the Edge of the World

Dancing at the Edge of the World
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0802165664
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“Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers.” —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World “I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind—strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for exhilarating reading. “If you are tired of being able to predict what a writer will say next, if you are bored stiff with minimalism, if you want excess and risk and intelligence and pure orneriness, try Le Guin.” —Mary Mackey, San Francisco Chronicle

An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing. Drawn Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures.

An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing. Drawn Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures.
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781609622169
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When a dancing master arrived in Boston in 1685 and offered lessons and classes for both sexes during times normally reserved for church meetings, the Puritan ministers went to court to suppress the practice. Increase Mather (1639-1723) took the leading part, writing and publishing this tract, which compiles arguments and precedents for the prohibition of "Gynecandrical Dancing, [i.e.] Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women ... together." These justifications were certainly shared with the court, which found the dancing master guilty, fined him £100, and allowed him to skip town. Mather's tract on dancing is an overwhelming compendium of sources and authorities: from the Bible, classical authors, Christian Church Fathers, medieval philosophers, and Reformed theologians both Continental and English. None of them, it appears, approved of mixed dancing-because it leads to adultery and worse. The vilest sins and the direst disasters lie only a short step from the dance floor. The Arrow is remarkable for two things (at least): for how much allusion and citation are packed into its brief 30 pages, and for how quickly it escalates the issue into life-or-death scenarios, all vividly painted to emphasize the mortal danger of men and women dancing together.