In the PBS documentary series “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows how African Americans introduced new rhythms, music and dance to Christianity ...

In 1774, Lee led eight followers to North America, settling near what is now Albany, New York. As is still true today, ...

Is dance religious? The question has always troubled me. For one, the question suggests a yes or no answer when neither is sufficient. Certainly, dancing appears as a major strand of all global ...

“Revelations” is a particularly programmatic take on religion, but modern dance’s religious dimension goes back to its roots. Martha Graham, who called dancers “acrobats of God” and believed that ...

SIVA, the Creator-Destroyer of Hinduism’s trinity, once stood on a demon and with one of his four arms began to shake a little hand drum. To the beat of this rhythm Siva moved his body, and with his ...

There’s power in dance. It’s good for mental, physical and spiritual health. But like religion, dancing sometimes requires a leap of faith. “It is through the doing that we become,” Jewish Iraqi ...

Faith and religion have been dancing for millenniums, quite often stepping on one another's toes until they bleed. Blame for the bleeding usually gets placed on religion, so much so, that the last few ...

David danced before the ark, but that was not “social dancing.” Social dancing has long been viewed by many Christians as dangerous to spiritual health if not actually sinful. The Missouri Synod ...

DANCING and architecture are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of architecture is ...