Finally, I offer a contemporary example of a such a chorus, namely the Birmingham Philosophy Guild. I find a handbook for this chorus’ creation in Euripides’ Bacchae, whose Dionysus is an ally of immigrant women, overthrower of Theban patriarchy, and international revolutionary. I thus call for the creation of hybrid Dionysian-Socratic revolutionary philosophical chorus, modeled on Dionysus Lyseus (from -lysis), wielding philosophical analysis to loosen injustice’s bonds, as a vanguard of social justice. Arthur Evans sharpens this critique of sexism and heteronormativity, concluding that, as Dionysus’ chorus is to Greek tragedy, so Socrates’ circle is to Western philosophy. The German translation of Alain Danilous Shiva and Dionysus was published at the publishing house Text und Dialog (Dresden) in March 2021. In 1991 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, Indias National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. First, Alain Daniélou identifies Dionysus and Shiva as the dancing god of a democratic/decolonizing cult oppressed by tyrannical patriarchies. Alain Daniélou (4 October 1907 27 January 1994) was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism. Newton’s vision for the Black Panthers, I here expand this inquiry to a line of Otto-inspired scholarship. 'Danielou's books are remarkable for their clarity, scholarship, and uninhibited celebration of erotic and mystical ecstasy.' Interview Magazine 'Gods of Love and Ecstasy makes compelling reading with so much information on the role played by gods and goddesses, revealing the theological complexity of this ancient cult. Having elsewhere connected Walter Otto’s interpretation of Dionysus as a politically progressive deity to Huey P.
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