RT Article
T1 Jesuit History, Theatre, and Spirituality: Jonathan Moore's Inigo
JF Religion and the arts
VO 23
IS 3
SP 273
OP 292
A1 Muneroni, Stefano
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1685185282
AB The 2014 staging and publication of Jonathan Moore's play Inigo offers a unique commentary on the relationship between acting and spirituality within the Society of Jesus, the official name of the Jesuit Order. Through a close analysis of Moore's play, this article contends that Jesuit spirituality draws on performative skills to inspire exemplary behavior and foster an embodied and long-lasting response to devotional narratives. In probing post-secular readings of hagiographical drama, the author considers the reasons for the ongoing fascination exerted by saints as stage characters in contemporary plays and argues that the success of Inigo is due to its humanistic reconfiguration of the notions of sanctity, faith, and redemption, as well as to its understanding of sainthood as the result of answering a religious and artistic vocation.
K1 Ignatius of Loyola
K1 Inigo
K1 Jesuit theatre
K1 Jonathan Moore
K1 Society of Jesus
K1 Post-secularism
DO 10.1163/15685292-02303004