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The Play Experience (1): Making Play-Spaces


 
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1. Title Title of document The Play Experience (1): Making Play-Spaces - Play, Pain and Religion
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Alison Robertson; The Open University; United Kingdom
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) body and religion; BDSM; kink; religious practice; religious experience; religioning; Gestalt; sex and religion; pain and religion; lived religion
 
5. Subject Subject classification Spirituality; Religious Practice; Religion and the Body
 
6. Description Abstract Chapter 4 introduces the concept of play as the core activity of BDSM; it is not a single thing but a process of combining many different activities into unique scenes. Beginning with participants’ understandings of the imperfect term ‘play’, and the ideas that are communicated by it, the chapter outlines the intimate, relational and dynamic processes of play. Through the actions of the players a cycle of sensation and response is created, carving out a space that feels qualitatively different from ‘ordinary’ or ‘everyday’ spaces and is therefore experienced as distinct. The fact that the lifestyle couples among my research participants also engage in play and experience it in this qualitatively different way is significant and helps shape an understanding of play as ‘an Experience’ – a set of events, sensations etc. around which a line can be drawn to mark them off from the flow of everyday experiences. Play can be seen as performing aspects of the self and relationship explicitly that might at other times be suppressed, hidden or simply less overt.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 27-Jul-2021
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40004
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.40004
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Play, Pain and Religion
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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