Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

List of Figures
List of editors and contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Claudia Orenstein and Tim Cusack
SECTION I: Shamanic Lineages

1. Puppets and Souls: Some Encounters in Korean Shaman Ritual

Laurel Kendall

2. Mamulengo and Spirituality: Are There Still Some Connections?

Izabela Brochado

3. Sogo bò: The Puppet Remains the Soul of the People, an Interview with Yaya Coulibaly

Heather Jeanne Denyer

4. The Hula Ki`i, The Dance of the Sacred Image, Hawaiian Puppetry: Nāpali Souza Interview with Auli’i Mitchell

Nāpali Souza and Auli'i Mitchell
SECTION II: Communal Celebrations

5. Japanese Karakuri Ningyō and the Performance of Shinto

Yasuko Senda and William Condee

6. Superhuman Superpowers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from the Assam Region of India

Deepsikha Chatterjee
7. Wayang Ritual Drama of Cirebon: Continuance of a Kratophanic Tradition
Matthew Isaac Cohen

8. "I Have Come to Do a Purification": Interview with Masako Nakauchi and Kimiyo Minami

Tomoe Kobayashi and Simon Moers
SECTION III: Powerful Players

9. Passing Down Through Shadows: Chinese Shadow Puppetry’s Ghostly Transmission

Annie Katsura Rollins

10. The Matter That Matters: An Exploration of Power and Materiality in Thai Nang Yai

Claudia Orenstein

11. Consecrated Puppets: The Puppet Deities of Southern China and Taiwan

Robin Ruizendaal

12. Exploring Spirituality in Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppetry of Kerala: A Conversation with Puppeteer Ramachandra Pulavar

Sangeeth Sankar A. and Rahul Koonathara
SECTION IV: Doctrinal Dialogues

13. Islam, Animism and Animation of Objects: Growth and Restrictions of Puppetry Under the Shadow of Religion

Salma Mohseni Ardehali and Mir Mohammadreza Heydari

14. Saintly Puppet Masters and Sacred Clowning: Antinomian Religion and Patterns in Islamic Puppetry of Java

Kathy Foley

15. Performing Death: A Medieval Puppet of Christ

Michelle K. Oing
SECTION V: Holding Heritage

16. The Enchanted Kaavad: Hierophany in Motion

Nina Sabnani

17. Forging a Material Connection to the Divine: The Life Cycle Rituals of the Sefer Torah

Joseph Maybloom
Index

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia.
Tim Cusack is Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage. Puppetry has always been an aspect of his creative process.