Chapter The Circus a Brief History of the Change of the Meaning of Circus – from a Ritual Experiment to an Experimental Show

This article is an attempt to analyse the change of the cultural meaning of the circus institution which took place during the long historical process of civilization evolution, affecting Western societies. The category of the sacred, the relation to which determined the cultural meaning of the circ...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1548112025-03-07T13:37:37Z Chapter The Circus a Brief History of the Change of the Meaning of Circus – from a Ritual Experiment to an Experimental Show Mielczarek, Rafał theatre avant-garde circus clown circus arts This article is an attempt to analyse the change of the cultural meaning of the circus institution which took place during the long historical process of civilization evolution, affecting Western societies. The category of the sacred, the relation to which determined the cultural meaning of the circus, is crucial for this analysis. The change of meaning began from the original religious sources of the early forms of the games, when the circus was one of the ritual formulas used to celebrate socially significant events, and went through the secularisation of this formula during the domination of Christianity to the stage where the circus became a secular institution of mass entertainment. 2025-03-07T13:37:36Z 2025-03-07T13:37:36Z 2019 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788381422284_236 9788381422284 9788381422277 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/154811 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/1130 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8142-227-7.02 This article is an attempt to analyse the change of the cultural meaning of the circus institution which took place during the long historical process of civilization evolution, affecting Western societies. The category of the sacred, the relation to which determined the cultural meaning of the circus, is crucial for this analysis. The change of meaning began from the original religious sources of the early forms of the games, when the circus was one of the ritual formulas used to celebrate socially significant events, and went through the secularisation of this formula during the domination of Christianity to the stage where the circus became a secular institution of mass entertainment. 10.18778/8142-227-7.02 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788381422284 9788381422277 21-42 open access
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